篇章:深海潜水能手--智利魔鬼鱼
Thought to dwell mostly near the ocean s surface, Chilean devil rays are most often seen gliding through shallow, warm waters. But a new study by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and international colleagues reveals that these large and majestic creatures are actually among the deepest-diving ocean animals. So little is known about these rays, said Simon Thorrold, a biologist at WHOI and one of the authors of the paper, published July 1, 2014, in the journal Nature Communications. We thought they probably travelled long distances horizontally, but we had no idea that they were diving so deep. That was truly a surprise.
Researchers utilized pop-up satellite archival transmitting tags to record the movement patterns of 15 Chilean devil rays in the central North Atlantic Ocean during 2011 and 2012. The tags, which stay on the animals for up to 9 months, also measure water temperature, depth, and light levels of the waters. Once the tags pop off, they float to the surface and beam data via the ARGO satellite system back to computers on shore.
Data from the tags gives us a three-dimensional view of the movements of these animals, and a window into how they re living in their ocean habitat -- where they go, when, and why, Thorrold added.
Devil rays, which can grow as large as four meters across, are ocean nomads travelling large areas of the ocean. Dive data from the tags showed individuals also routinely descended at speeds up to 6 meters per second to depths of almost 2,000 meters in water temperatures less than 4 degrees Celsius .
The deep dives generally followed two distinct patterns. The most common involved descent to the maximum depth followed by a slower, stepwise return to the surface with a total dive time of 60 to 90 minutes. The tagged rays generally only made one such dive during a 24-hour period. In the second dive pattern, individuals descended and then remained at depths of up to 1,000 meters for as long as 11 hours.
During the day, the rays would spend time up at the surface -- presumably heating up -- immediately before, and then again, after a deep dive. How else might these animals be dealing with the cold temperatures of the deep ocean?
A previous study in the 1970s found that several species of devil rays possess a physiological adaptation -- well-developed blood vessels around the cranial cavity that essentially serve as heat exchange systems. At the time, it was hypothesized that the rays must be using this adaptation to cool down rather than warm up.
Rays were always seen in very warm water up at the surface, so why would they need an adaptation for cold water? Once we looked at the dive data from the tags, of course it made perfect sense that the rays have these systems. Sometimes they re down diving for two or three hours in very cold water -- two to three degrees Celsius , Thorrold said.
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