Tag: Stingray

sexymonstersupercreep:

This is actually a lot safer than it looks!

Rays have crushing plates in their mouths, but no significant gripping power, so they can’t grab a hand and pull it. You have to sit still and let them get your fingers into their mouth for them to actually put the plates to work. Also, the sharp bits are on the other end, and they only sting when threatened. Clearly, this ray does not feel threatened. 

Rays also tame pretty easily when offered food, as seen above. 

withdrawnwitch:

mousethephoenix:

eggcup:

torikaze:

babyanimalgifs:

In case you weren’t aware, sting rays are basically puppies.

oh hey I know these guys! they’re in a little tide pool at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and they’re super sweet. If they see you standing next to the pool they’ll jump up out of the water and splash you until you pet them

after what they did to steve? nah

steve startled the ray, took the blame, and forgave it before he passed away. if he can forgive em so can i

@adhesivesandscrap

Besides, stingrays can’t kill you unless you get super unlucky and get stabbed somewhere like the lung, and this isn’t even one of the ones that can be a serious issue. Looks like a bat ray or a cownose ray- small-barbed, open-water swimmers. The dangerous ones tend to have larger barbs and sit on the bottom, often buried. People get stung by stepping on them. Most places with touch tanks keep the barbs trimmed down, in any case. 

And they do really seem to enjoy petting!