{"id":4163,"date":"2017-03-28T14:51:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/animal-behaviour\/aquarium-awash-with-rare-baby-rays\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:42:46","slug":"aquarium-awash-with-rare-baby-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/blog\/aquarium-awash-with-rare-baby-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"AQUARIUM AWASH WITH RARE BABY RAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AQUARIUM AWASH WITH<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>RARE BABY RAYS<\/strong><br \/>\nDeep Sea World, Scotland\u2019s national aquarium, is celebrating the arrival of dozens of rare baby rays.<br \/>\nSo far no fewer than 24 baby thornback and undulate rays have hatched out at the North Queensferry wildlife attraction this week, with more expected to arrive over the coming days.<br \/>\nBoth the thornback and the undulate rays are native to British waters. The thornback is officially classified as \u2018Near Threatened\u2019 in the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species while the undulate ray is classed as \u2018Endangered\u2019 which means it faces a very high risk of extinction in the near future.<br \/>\nDeep Sea World\u2019s Displays Supervisor Michael Morris said: \u201cAll the ray egg-cases were originally collected by hand by our dive team within the large Shark display earlier this year.<br \/>\n\u201cThey were then transferred to our quarantine area where they have been able to develop safely away from the attention of any potential predators.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s unusual to have quite so many eggs hatching out in such a relatively short time period but it will allow us to be able to provide our sister aquariums with captive-bred rays for the future,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nThornbacks are the most common ray in British waters and can grow up to 1.2 metres in length.<br \/>\nThe species gets its name from the coarse prickles which cover their upper body.<br \/>\nDespite being the UK\u2019s commonest type of ray, it is still considered to be \u2018Near Threatened\u2019 in the wild which means it may be considered threatened with extinction in the near future.<br \/>\nAlso known as the painted ray, the undulate ray is one of the most distinctive rays to be found in UK water. This species is patterned with long, wavy, dark lines edged with white spots that run parallel to the wing margins.<br \/>\nIn 2007 the fish was included in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan and in 2009 it received full protection from the European Council meaning that it cannot be retained or landed if accidentally caught by fishermen.<br \/>\nDeep Sea World currently contributes to a UK aquarium-based monitoring programme for undulate rays, and it is hoped these juvenile rays will provide additional individuals to boost the captive breeding programme in the years ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AQUARIUM AWASH WITH RARE BABY RAYS Deep Sea World, Scotland\u2019s national aquarium, is celebrating the arrival of dozens of rare baby rays. So far no fewer than 24 baby thornback and undulate rays have hatched out at the North Queensferry wildlife attraction this week, with more expected to arrive over the coming days. Both the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepseaworld.com\/animal-behaviour\/aquarium-awash-with-rare-baby-rays\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-behaviour"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272145505,"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4272145505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuronicdev.es\/deep-sea-world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}