Abstract:Research on free-ranging species of marine megafauna is required to understand their behavioural ecology, including how groups respond to environmental and anthropogenic pressures. New technologies are opening up potential for detailed observational research on these species in the wild, especially on group-based and collective behaviours. Reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) are socially interactive elasmobranchs that form groups in coastal reef habitats. Collective behaviours are likely important to their fitnes… Show more
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