{"id":166230,"date":"2025-06-07T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166230\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T23:46:09","slug":"biologists-in-mallorca-removing-manta-ray-from-close-to-a-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166230\/","title":{"rendered":"Biologists in Mallorca removing manta ray from close to a beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Palma+Aquarium.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palma Aquarium<\/a> Foundation located the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorcadailybulletin.com\/tag\/Manta+ray.html?utm_source=Inline-tag&amp;utm_medium=internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manta ray<\/a> off the beach in Illetes<\/strong> on Saturday morning and were able to &#8220;neutralise&#8221; it. They are treating it in the sea and are trying to figure out the best way of removing it from the water and take it to the Aquarium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A red flag<\/strong> was raised at the beach on Friday morning after the manta ray was sighted. Calvia Town Hall lowered the flag on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>There have been other recent sightings of manta rays close to the Balearic coasts. Aniol Esteban, a marine biologist at the Marilles Foundation, says: &#8220;<strong>This is exceptional<\/strong>. Nothing like this has ever happened before. It&#8217;s rare, and we don&#8217;t yet know what&#8217;s causing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manta rays are pelagic animals, accustomed to swimming in the open sea and near the surface. &#8220;Their appearance so close to the coast indicates that they could be <strong>sick or disoriented<\/strong>.&#8221; This could lead to them running aground and dying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biologists from the Palma Aquarium Foundation located the manta ray off the beach in Illetes on Saturday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[21470,69563,69564,69565,69566,69567,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-166230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-beaches","9":"tag-illetes-mallorca","10":"tag-mallorca-beaches","11":"tag-mallorca-marine-life","12":"tag-manta-ray","13":"tag-palma-aquarium","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114644751672708118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}