However, when plankton densities increase, the mantas line up head-to-tail to form these long feeding chains, and any tasty morsel that escapes the first or second manta in line is surely to be gobbled up by the next or the one after.

As plankton levels peak in the bay, the mantas swim closer and closer together in a unique behavior we call cyclone feeding.

And as they swirl in tight formation, this multi-step column of mantas creates its own vortex, sucking in and delivering the plankton right into the mantas' cavernous mouths.

Mantas in sentence

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