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Meet the Fish That Are Ramming Themselves Up Manta Ray Butts (opens in new tab)

According to reporting from The New York Times based on a new study published in Ecology and Evolution, scientists have officially documented one of the most desperate survival strategies in nature: a fish fleeing danger by launching itself directly up a manta ray’s butt. All up inside it. Researchers call the behavior “cloacal diving,” which […] The post Meet the Fish That Are Ramming Themselves Up Manta Ray Butts appeared first on VICE.

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