Giant creature that can weigh 3 tons, 9m long - Sharks also become small when swimming next to them

Below is a video recording the image of a giant creature swimming near a bay in Trinidad - a country located in the southern Caribbean Sea, 11km off the coast of Venezuela.

Another creature swimming beside it is believed to be a shark. This makes many people amazed at the huge size of this creature. Indeed, they are one of the largest creatures in the ocean.

Giant ocean rays, sharks are nothing compared to it!

What creature is this?

The creature mentioned above is a giant ocean stingray,  also known as sea crutchfish (Scientific name: Mobula birostris ) - is the largest species of stingray in the family Mobulidae as well as the largest type of stingray. In the world.

This fish is distributed mainly in tropical and subtropical seas , sometimes also occurring in temperate seas. The giant ocean stingray has a typical flat body of a stingray but has a very impressive size with a length of up to 9m, weighing about 3 tons!

Giant stingray.

The average length of a stingray is about 4.5m; Like many large creatures of the ocean, stingrays mainly feed on plankton, and information about them is still a mystery because this fish lives in the deep sea.

According to a 2016 study titled " Giant rays shown to be predators of the deep"  on Phys.org, 73% of their food is mesopelagic creatures. deep ocean).

The ocean giant ray is also one of the creatures with the largest brain, weighing up to 200g (compared to a human brain, it weighs about 1.3g and is 5 to 10 times the brain mass of a whale shark). .

The giant ocean stingray also has the largest brain-to-body mass ratio of any other fish (this ratio reflects the intelligence of the animals). That is why the ocean stingray is one of the most intelligent creatures in the ocean.

The gill plate of the stingray has a medicinal value in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

An interesting fact about this large creature is that they will die if they stop swimming or in other words , they have to swim non-stop throughout their lives . The reason is that swimming helps them absorb oxygen to breathe.

Despite its large size, giant rays are gentle creatures and are harmless to humans. Giant ocean rays even curiously approached divers. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN ) classifies them as one of 16,000 threatened species.

The main cause of this threat is humans. Hunting rays for gill plates - Gill plate (the part that helps rays filter food is small plankton) - to make medicine has caused the number of rays to be seriously reduced.