Individual variation in residency and regional movements of reef manta rays Mobula alfredi in a large marine protected area

We thank the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the British Indian Ocean Territory Administration for granting us permission to undertake the research. Funding for this project was primarily provided by the Bertarelli Foundation and contributed to the Bertarelli Programme in Marine Science. Additional funding for tags was provided by the JSF Pollitzer Charitable Trust, The Rufford Foundation and the Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust through the Chagos Conservation Trust. S.A. was supported by an anonymous donation to Stanford University for marine conservation research in the Block lab. We thank 2 anonymous reviewers for providing constructive comments that improved the manuscript.