Figure 2. Manta ray behaviours.

Photographs presenting the three main behaviours for M. alfredi observed around the LEI reef: (A) cruising (manta ray swimming with cephalic lobes rolled and mouth closed), (B) cleaning (manta ray at a ‘cleaning station’, maintaining a near stationary position atop a coral patch for several minutes while being cleaned by cleaner fishes), and (C) foraging (manta ray ram feeding - swimming against the tidal current with its mouth open and sieving zooplankton from the water).