Remember the ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray? Well, that's when the fish became extremely popular and the world became aware that these creatures can be extremely dangerous when confronted with.
Remember the ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray? Well,
that's when the fish became extremely popular and the world became aware that these creatures can be extremely dangerous when confronted with. For those who have never known about stingrays, or perhaps might have thought that it's not a fish, should not underestimate them under any circumstances.
Although, it might not look like a fish, stingrays are flat bodied, wide chest fishes that are related to sharks. Surprisingly, like sharks, stingrays still do not have any bones in them; instead their bodies are supported by cartilage, the same element that is found in the human body.
Stingrays may look close to Angel fishes that most of us have adored in our aquariums, but they are not anyway linked as they have special characteristics of their own. The flat sides that you may also observe on stingrays are actually wide broad fins that run through the side of their bodies giving them the flat round shape.
Hence, to move forward the fish moves their entire body in a way that helps them to move forward through water. While other fishes need to flap their fins to help them propel through water, stingrays need to move their entire body to move forward.
Every fish has a defense mechanism of their own and so does stingray. Stingrays have to use that are extremely poisonous and its dead arm off or defense. These statements are extremely sharp by some of them have a spying and edges that are notched or jagged. Most exotic looking stingrays especially the blue spotted ones have venom in their tails and when they sting their predators, the poison is released and us becomes extremely fatal.
Stingrays usually prefer to stay in shallow water or the water near the shore and is usually prefers warm water. They usually spend most of their time lying around on by being partially themselves on the ocean floor so that they can hide from their predictors or wait for their food to pass by. Their predators are usually sharks and other such dangerous fishes, but they usually manage to camouflage themselves since their color resembles the mud they hide in.
The stingray has been designed in a very peculiar manner because its mouth, gills, nostrils are under its body while its eyes are on top. However, researchers have observed that stingrays do not use their eyes much to hunt for food but they use special sensors Lorenzini, which can help them detect the electrical charges emitted by its prey.
Food for stingrays:
Stingrays feed on clams, mussels, oysters, shrimp is and crabs. Stingrays have strong jaws with which they can crush their meal into a fine paste.
Stingrays usually give birth once in your and typically produced 2-6 young ones at a single time. A peculiar thing about stingray’s reproduction system is that while the female stingray still has the baby inside her, the younger one grows to such an extent that when it comes out it looks like an adult stingray. Hence, they are able to survive on their own and feed themselves.
Yet another surprising fact is that stingrays can live for more than 25 years and can grow to 6.5 feet and weigh 800 pounds.
It's not easy to find a stingray, or even see a glimpse, because they usually shy away from the crowd and generally camouflage themselves with the color of the mud. However, one way that you can clearly see a stingray and enjoy its beautiful structure is to visit sea life as they bring such creatures in the vicinity of humans, and fill you up with all the exciting facts about it.
