Sharks and Rays Leap Out of the Water for Many Reasons

These Include Feeding, Courtship and Communication

Nick Bonzey captured a series of photographs showing giant bat rays, which are nearly four feet in diameter, leaping out of the water at Cabo Pulmo, along Baja Peninsula in Mexico.

Often one of the first thing that impresses us when we first arrive in southern waters is the spectacle of rays leaping into the air, flapping “wings” as if to fly. The author…