How to pronounce “manta” in English

It's that thing with the big black wings and the long stingray tail.Mantarraya, to an older fisherman, is that animal, Manta birostris.To a younger person in Bahia de los Angeles, mantarraya actually refers to a different set of species, because they've never seen Manta birostris.

They thought that manta rays would hover above the diver, and when the diver came up, he would envelop them and devour him.The manta ray actually eats plankton.It's a filter feeder.

statistics on the screen, 26% of all mammals, 41% of all amphibians, 30% ofall sharks and manta rays, and 13% of all birds are at risk of extinction.Goodbye. And if that doesn't scare you, these are huge, crazy numbers. These these numbers are the reason why scientists like myself are describing

You have whites, great white sharks.You have the flying manta, like-- what are they called-- flying-- Eagle rays.Eagle rays, you know, by the thousands.

This one really looks good.The champion is the manta shrimp, which, depending on which variety of manta shrimp, can have between 12 and 16 different kinds of color

This one really looks good.This is what a manta shrimp looks like to us.

is an animal that grows to about 25 feet across.You know what a manta ray looks like.It's that thing with the big black wings and the long stingray tail.

I'll give you an example.So that manta ray, when I started looking in the history of the manta ray in Bahia de los Angeles, the first placeI found records was in writings from the pearl industry.

In the 16th and 17th century, there was a thriving pearl industry in the Sea of Cortez.They thought that the manta ray was the most dangerous predator of pearl divers.They thought that manta rays would hover above the diver, and when the diver came up, he would envelop them and devour him.

They thought that the manta ray was the most dangerous predator of pearl divers.They thought that manta rays would hover above the diver, and when the diver came up, he would envelop them and devour him.The manta ray actually eats plankton.

How do we hold those together?I entered the words manta ray, Bahia de los Angeles.

How do we hold those together?None actually involved Manta birostris.

So even the language has changed.The word mantarraya now signifies something smaller than what it used to signify.It's not always something disappearing or shrinking.

There's a different idea of what the sea can do.Or another example-- the word mantarraya Older fishermen use the word mantarraya to refer to Manta birostris, whichis an animal that grows to about 25 feet across.

So there's no memory of them.But if you start thinking about the manta ray and what happened to it, you run into a couple different exotic species of pearl oyster--the rainbow pearl oyster, the black pearl oyster.

the rainbow pearl oyster, the black pearl oyster.So continuing forward with the manta ray, after the pearl industry collapsed, the main danger to the manta ray were fishing boatsbecause fishing boats, if they saw one, they'd try to kill a 25-foot animal because it was a lot of free meat.

They're all four endangered species.Now the greatest threat for the manta ray are the drift nets which are placed for billfish like marlin, but they also take outseveral different species of shark.

They've seen much smaller species that are about 4 or 5 feet across, members of the genus Mobula.For them, mantarraya means that.The older fisherman has a different word for that thing, the smaller thing.

How do we hold those together?For a moment, I thought the manta might be faring better than I'd believed.

How do we hold those together?What was in the process of happening in Bahia to the word mantarraya had already happened on the internet with the term

en el que vivimos y con una España que está ahí también.Y, bueno, me lío la manta a la cabeza.Empezamos siendo veintitantos. También cuento muchas veces siempre que tengo la ocasión, pedí un crédito porque, como sabéis, se paga 3 meses.

Mantarraya, to an older fisherman, is that animal, Manta birostris.To a younger person in Bahia de los Angeles, mantarraya actually refers to a different set of species, because they've never seen Manta birostris.They've seen much smaller species that are about 4 or 5 feet across, members of the genus Mobula.

I'm a research scholar at Princeton, and I'm a composer and improviser, and also electrical engineer.So I have a company building some instruments that, if you've heard of the Snyderphonics Manta, that's me.Excellent. Thank you, Sideband, and Kathy.

How do we hold those together?"One evening, I thought I'd search the internet for reports of mantas in the bay.

And I think that process can help us reconcile two visions of nature that have been in play here.On the one hand, the nature that has grandeur, the 25-foot manta ray, the sea turtles.On the other hand, the clear sense that this is a degraded natural world.

How do we hold those together?Most of the photos, however, bore captions that identified the flying creatures as manta rays.

Marine Community Conservation Area.But if you go there you will see all the big fish I told you about. You will see sea turtles and manta rays and big sharks; more sharks than you've seen anywhere else, almost anywhereelse on the planet. And you can see the, you see giant clams that are still giant. So you really just, the--the diversity of life is great. Well so what? We're the Nature Conservancy

Love their Jeeps, right?And so it's like, imagine if somebody who owns a Jeep in California can become friends with someone who owns a Jeep in North Mantako, Minnesotaor Montgomery, Alabama simply because they have an NFT that allows them to get access to a digital space.

That's cruising along the top of the second wall, which is also where the thermocline is.There are a lot of animals-- pelagics, like different kinds of sharks, mantas, tuna-- that that's your best chance of seeing themis along the top of that second wall.