According to Australian Geographic, the fishy octet had assembled to vie for the attention of a nearby female-an elaborate courtship ritual that typically involves a lady ray releasing pheromones into the water before zooming away, triggering a train of males into giving chase. “I actually thought my strobes were playing up.”Ĭlouseau was concealed by seven other male manta rays, all flashing more typical white undersides. “At first I was very confused,” Laine tells Angela Heathcote at Australian Geographic.
So rare are the sightings that Kristian Laine, the photographer behind Clouseau’s most recent close-up, was certain the ray’s coloration was an artifact of malfunctioning camera equipment. Just in time for the rosiest holiday of the year, another diver has snapped a rare photo of Inspector Clouseau, the world’s only known pink manta ray.įirst spotted lurking in the waters off Australia’s Lady Elliot Island in late 2015, the 11-foot male fish-cheekily named for the detective in the Pink Panther franchise-has been glimpsed only a handful of times since, reports Bethany Augliere for National Geographic.
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