[nickcarraway]

Large group of bat rays — called a fever — recorded in the Monterey Bay (Video, and a video at link.)

[ptsal]

Bkmk

[TornadoAlley3]

Earthquake pending?

[Bounced2X]

Here's what they look like and another to give it scale.

[Sirius Lee]

Bat ray feeVERRrrr, da nhanh nah....

[Vendome]

I’ll try to get a look at these guys this week

[ClearCase_guy]

I’ve got a fever. And the only prescription — is more cowbell.

[vpintheak]

Is the only solution.... more cowbell?

[12chachacha]

About 20 years ago I witnessed this off of Long Beach. It was caused by global warming back then and it’s causing it now. We are so mean giving these delicate creatures a “fever ”.

[Robert DeLong]

I thought they were found in Florida:

Baseball Bat Mug Tampa Bay Rays Dugout Mug

Oh, you are talking about these guys:

The bat ray is an eagle ray found in muddy or sandy sloughs, estuaries and bays, kelp beds and rocky-bottomed shoreline in the eastern Pacific Ocean, between the Oregon coast and the Gulf of California. It is also found in the area around the Galápagos Islands. The largest specimens can grow to a wingspan of 5 ft 11 in and a mass of 201 lb. They more typically range from 20.0–30.0 lb. The size of the bat ray is dependent on many factors, such as habitat alterations, different oceanographic and environmental conditions. Bat rays have one to three venomous barbed spines at the base of its tail. Some bat rays are solitary while others form schools numbering in the thousands.

The sexual maturity size of the female Myliobatis california is often greater than the male one. Bat rays are euryhaline, i.e. they are able to live in environments with a wide range of salinities. Predators of the bat ray include California sea lion, great white sharks and broadnose sevengill sharks. To keep themselves safe from predators, bat rays camouflage in the sand.