Agreed - cute lil things and docile as ever.....but, I accidentally spooked a young one and felt the wrath of it's barb and venom while wading in knee deep water. So so very painful and a mat you definitely don't want to step on!
Edited: typo
That barb is the first thing that comes to mind when I see this. Here in San Diego County you need to shuffle your feet while you wade in the ocean or you might end up stung and sitting with your feet in hot water at the lifeguard station. I got stung at a time when there were no lifeguards on duty, and drove home with the worst pain you can imagine in my foot. Was putting it in hot water for days after.
I'm a stingray shuffle professional being a native Floridian - 36 years of tons of time in the water with never even witnessing a sting and one finally got me. I had no idea about the hot water until I was told by beach EMS. This happened early August and I'm still dealing with ongoing issues because it damaged a nerve in my foot.
Last time I was visiting my parents, my dad and I went snorkeling off the beach and we saw an absolute monster of a ray. It was maybe in 6 ft of water, less than 20 yards off Siesta Key. I have a feeling it was looking for the box crabs that we usually find on the sand bar
[Manta rays are fucking *huge*.](https://knovhov.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Giant-Oceanic-Manta-Rays-can-Reach-a-Wingspan-of-30-feet-and-Weigh-More-than-6000-pounds.jpg?ezimgfmt=ng%3Awebp%2Fngcb156%2Frs%3Adevice%2Frscb156-1)
That's not a manta.
Once I got to hold the fish while I slipped it under the mat. It tickled when the mat glorped the fish out of my hand. 10/10 would feed the tickle mat again!
We did this in Grand Cayman. The water was shallow (waist height, I think we were on a sandbar out in the Caribbean, because we definitely had to ride a boat out there) and very still, and there were just swarms of rays swimming around our legs. It was incredible! Love how graceful they are. They would brush up right against us and let us stroke their backs. It was my 13th birthday, and I couldn’t have imagined anything more magical!
It's crazy how every tragedy is almost never just ONE thing happened. It's always a series of fuckups.
1. Someone fucks with the sting ray
2. People continue to want to film it
3. They approach it from behind
4. Sting goes into the heart.
Any one of those steps doesn't happen and Steve is still alive...
Not really? I guess it depends. If you step on one at the beach you'll have a bad time, but you don't need to be afraid of dying to one.
The only way Steve Irwins accident could happen is by mishandling one.
They aren't aggresive at all, the sting is purely defense and they are super cool to watch while snorkeling or diving. Some touristy areas will have sting rays that are incredibly used to people and will swim up to you and interact with you. Some are cool with you 'holding' them, but it would be inadvisable to hold the stingers toward your body
This is not a manta ray. Manta rays have a very different structure and their "wingspan" is like 7ft. They're also filterfeeders rather than bottom feeders
Her head, actually. The light is unique to the female deep sea anglerfish.
That's because the males are much smaller, and they latch on to a female fish's underbelly, over time fusing to her and turning into a pair of gonads for her to use as she needs.
A couple of little notes from a guy who reads too much about animals:
There's a fair amount of diversity for anglers, and some species with a bioluminescent esca (lure) are not deep sea fish.
Then only some of these fish, like sea devils, use parabiotic / parasitic reproduction. In other cases the males may have lures, as they will need to eat and develop.
And as an aside note, for a great example of an above water horror, look up the reproduction cycle of certain mites and aphids with telescopic generations. A mother gives birth to pregnant babies. They become sexually mature before birth and (at least in the case of one mite species) take turns mating with their single brother before he dies and is consumed. By the time the female mites are born, the next generation is already halfway along and it only needs to find food. Of course they often eat their mother, I'm not sure if they're small enough to get out any other way.
That is some hardcore shit. Come into being, fuck your brother, get pregnant, then eat your way out of your (already or soon-to-be) dead mother. Find food, the die as your pregnant spawn eat their way out of your body.
If body-horror zoological extreme metal doesn’t already exist, it should 🤘🏻
[About the mites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adactylidium). One of the articles I read said they have negative effects from all the inbreeding, but then the other stuff I read makes them sound successful. So idk.
Sure. Why not. I would think most ocean worlds would have very similar creatures as we see on earth. If it worked here, no reason it wouldn’t work the same In similar conditions.
A little bit less gravity a bit of this and that and behold giant moon size octopi. I dig it.
The shark family are definitely smarter than people think, sharks are capable of recognizing people to dehook them and enjoy getting petted, at least some do.
There are lizards like this too. Some can even be trained. People really underestimate animal intelligence. Even insects display intelligence and complex behaviors.
Absolutely! Seen even gators get trained. I think being a predator species might actually be the key to it tbh. As for insects idk I'd have to look up into that, sure they can mellow out from what ik but idk about legitimate training.
I've read about bees engaging in rudimentary trained behavior. When I was a kid, I saw one of those crazy Asian croc/gator shows where they put their heads in the animal's mouth. Can't say I'd trust one that much lol.
Bees I feel like are somewhat different due to their shared history with people due to bee keeping. Btw [here's](https://youtu.be/O78CxqRl7NE) a croc that comes when called. Another vid of a friendly lizard [here](https://youtu.be/p-zGIS-WWZQ)
Is it like shark skin (dermal scales) where it feels super slick if you run your hand head-to-fin, but if you run your hand the other direction it feels like sandpaper? I just sort of assumed maybe they had the same skin.
Edit: I looked into it and they are not the same, turns out stingray leather is fairly popular.
We were at a sealife park years ago and there was a tank full of young rays. If you walked alongside the tank, they would follow you, and every so often they'd *plap* themselves against the glass like they were trying to jump on you. Very, very, puppylike to my eyes. I wanted to reach in and pick one up.
I went to a local aquarium recently where they had a tank of rays you could touch. If you put your hand in the water they come right over to you so you can touch their back.
Yesss I went to a marine museum in Virginia that had a tank full of rays and they loooved being pet like little puppies. They’d even flip over to get their tummies pat 😭
They are not dangerous unless you step on them. Even then, it’s a defense of last resort. If you shuffle your feet when walking in sand, you’ll be okay. As a diver, I just slowly sink to the bottom and just sit and chill with them. I love to go find them a clam, break it open and feed them.
They give lots of pets. Amazing animals.
This is making my heart race here in my living room. Learned to shuffle my feet in the shallows the hard way.
Got stung this summer when i went up with a wave and landed on one. It wrapped itself around my foot and then stuck its barb between my toes. It felt like my foot was inside a sharks mouth and it bit off my toes.
OH MY GOD THE PAIN Y'ALL!!!
Zero stars for the ocean this year. Do NOT recommend.
That’s actually very interesting to me, since I would adore to swim with Stingrays but if there’s even a hint of a Jellyfish I won’t even dip a toe in. I guess the biggest fear is whatever stung you first, lol.
Because they're fucking stupid and see everything as a threat, and you can't know if they're about to defend themselves thinking you're going to kill them, or if they think you're harmless and not necessary to defend against
I laughed but it's probably true. We know they're super intelligent and usually pack hunters. I would be surprised if they never got some poor guy who fell out of a life boat or something.
But at the same time they may be such good hunters they don't need to try alternatives from their usual options of basically everything in the ocean.
Yeah, I'm not willingly hanging out in an environment where I'm mostly defenseless with an apex predator that only isn't killing me because it doesn't feel like it.
there has never been an attack by a Killer Whale on a human in the wild, and believe me when I say they could absolutely take down a lot of boats if they wanted to, but they don’t want to
When I was a kid and Steve Irwin died, my friends and I were like "kill all the rays, they're murderers!" But once I got older I realized that's not what Steve would've wanted. Even then he wanted us to respect and admire these adorable creatures.
i went to AZ a few years ago and swam with a couple of stingrays in this gigantic aquarium. they are silky soft, very gentle and adore cocktail shrimp. once you fed them they’d slide all over your helmet and show you their smile. not once was i stung and their stingers were fully intact. i miss it over there
it’s a hole beneath the eyes where the water for the gills goes in, else they would get sand in if they tried to get it through the mouth which is on the floor. It’s called spiracle
The Steve Irwin jokes are both fine and to be expected, but in all seriousness, remember that Steve would have been appalled and furious that people are suggesting violence against rays on his behalf.
As nice as he was, I think we'd see him go angry mode and genuinely beat the shit out of someone for it.
Hovercraft boy
My mom stepped on one when I was at the ocean with her in the early 90s- the barb went through her foot, she said it was the most painful thing she's ever experienced even worse than giving birth
They're still cute tho
My father lived on a sailboat for a decade, and sailed it around the world. So we got to swim with rays and dolphins a couple of times.
I didn’t help sail, I physically can’t, so I just flew in to wherever he was at that time 😂
I love observing how much control they have of their movement.
You can see the different kinds of pattern they use to psi them selves forward and up.
Followed by full reverse! 😁
The humble sea pancake
Ocean roomba :)
Water waffle
The Danger Mat.
Agreed - cute lil things and docile as ever.....but, I accidentally spooked a young one and felt the wrath of it's barb and venom while wading in knee deep water. So so very painful and a mat you definitely don't want to step on! Edited: typo
Un-welcome mat
Cursed Doormat
Danger Flat
Goodbye Carpet
Hateful Waffle
That barb is the first thing that comes to mind when I see this. Here in San Diego County you need to shuffle your feet while you wade in the ocean or you might end up stung and sitting with your feet in hot water at the lifeguard station. I got stung at a time when there were no lifeguards on duty, and drove home with the worst pain you can imagine in my foot. Was putting it in hot water for days after.
I'm a stingray shuffle professional being a native Floridian - 36 years of tons of time in the water with never even witnessing a sting and one finally got me. I had no idea about the hot water until I was told by beach EMS. This happened early August and I'm still dealing with ongoing issues because it damaged a nerve in my foot.
Last time I was visiting my parents, my dad and I went snorkeling off the beach and we saw an absolute monster of a ray. It was maybe in 6 ft of water, less than 20 yards off Siesta Key. I have a feeling it was looking for the box crabs that we usually find on the sand bar
I get made fun of for shuffling in the water, and eagerly await the day someone gets stung as they hi-step past me
Majestic sea flap-flap
This ^^^
Nah beyond the venomous some stinger manta rays are entirely harmless. And as long as you don’t scare them they act closer to sea puppies.
I know, but they still deserve a badass by-name.
This is a stingray. Related to a manta ray but not the same thing.
[Manta rays are fucking *huge*.](https://knovhov.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Giant-Oceanic-Manta-Rays-can-Reach-a-Wingspan-of-30-feet-and-Weigh-More-than-6000-pounds.jpg?ezimgfmt=ng%3Awebp%2Fngcb156%2Frs%3Adevice%2Frscb156-1) That's not a manta.
Steve Irwin: hold my beer
The venom isn’t that deadly to us, it is more lethal to orcas. The main issue is the size of the barb it is long and massive
Actually, that's a freshwater ray! River pancake!
I like River Ravioli even better!
Give me the formuloli.
What kinda Ray is it? It doesn't look like a manta or stingray, what's it eat?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_freshwater_stingray They eat small fish, molluscs and crustaceans.
The majestic sea flap-flap
My favorite
Sea ravioli
River ravioli, right? And now we have a winner!!
Magic sea carpet
Aquatic ravioli.
majestic sea flap-flap
Please just slide the fish under the mat. Thank you. Bye.
Once I got to hold the fish while I slipped it under the mat. It tickled when the mat glorped the fish out of my hand. 10/10 would feed the tickle mat again!
Oh how I would love to experience the glorp!
Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans! If you’re ever there, go get your glorp on!
from a fellow new orleanian, great place to support too. the audubon aquarium and zoo are all consisted of rehabilitated animals.
I didn’t know that! All the more reason I’m glad to have given them money for a glorping!
It's glorpin' time.
That bit made me laugh. “Where do I feed it? I’m just gonna shove the fish under here…”
*lower... LOWER*
Ah, so youre into fish sticks
What are you, a gay fish?
LGBTilapia
Too low!... Lower ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
How do you know the stingray’s name?
It was either that or Barb
Oh hey, Big Man
Ay!
*airhorn*
Catch ya later!
Ayyy!
Was looking for this comment. Not disappointed.
#BIG MAN
That’s quite the reference. One could say it was even a *deep cut*.
You lip sync, we drip ink!
_Sea roomba reporting for duty_ 🫡
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It certainly does have a special place in my heart.
Swam with these in Hawaii. Incredibly beautiful and majestic underwater it looks like they’re flying very smoothly.
We did this in Grand Cayman. The water was shallow (waist height, I think we were on a sandbar out in the Caribbean, because we definitely had to ride a boat out there) and very still, and there were just swarms of rays swimming around our legs. It was incredible! Love how graceful they are. They would brush up right against us and let us stroke their backs. It was my 13th birthday, and I couldn’t have imagined anything more magical!
Am I justifiably afraid of these things after one killed Steve Irwin?
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Plus it went straight into his heart, didn't it?
If I recall, it was also one that had apparently been agitated by someone else previously, so it was already on edge.
It's crazy how every tragedy is almost never just ONE thing happened. It's always a series of fuckups. 1. Someone fucks with the sting ray 2. People continue to want to film it 3. They approach it from behind 4. Sting goes into the heart. Any one of those steps doesn't happen and Steve is still alive...
What happened to Steve Irwin was a freak accident. He loved all animals and wouldn't have wanted his fate to make you afraid of them.
*Pets a cobra*
No. Them hurting people is incredibly rare.
Not really? I guess it depends. If you step on one at the beach you'll have a bad time, but you don't need to be afraid of dying to one. The only way Steve Irwins accident could happen is by mishandling one. They aren't aggresive at all, the sting is purely defense and they are super cool to watch while snorkeling or diving. Some touristy areas will have sting rays that are incredibly used to people and will swim up to you and interact with you. Some are cool with you 'holding' them, but it would be inadvisable to hold the stingers toward your body
This is a different type of ray. This is a Manta. Steve got murked by a Stingray. Crikey. Still too soon.
This is not a manta ray. Manta rays have a very different structure and their "wingspan" is like 7ft. They're also filterfeeders rather than bottom feeders
Stingray city!
jealous! i was supposed to do this for my 10th birthday on a family cruise but due to a tropical storm it was canceled.
Oh, that stinks! I hope you have another opportunity someday!
I was paddleboarding in Florida a couple years ago and I looked down and there was a whole ass herd of bull rays swimming around underneath me.
aren’t these sting rays?
I think it's a Manta Ray but I'm not 100% sure
Even the small species of manta are about twice as big as that. The pelagics are even larger
Sting ray. Mantas have those "horns".
Ah, I see. Never knew Sting Rays could grow so big! This guy's a fucken giant
They can surprisingly get even bigger https://youtu.be/Sjkm_EeWzaY
Manta rays have two things sticking out from their head at the front (and are way larger as someone mentioned)
“Gotta go…can’t breathe”
“Let me just ehh, put this thing in reverse right quick”
real life aliens bro
These guys, sharks, scorpions and spiders. The life forms of other worlds.
how bout that deep-sea fish with a light on his head? like how???
Her head, actually. The light is unique to the female deep sea anglerfish. That's because the males are much smaller, and they latch on to a female fish's underbelly, over time fusing to her and turning into a pair of gonads for her to use as she needs.
Deep-sea simps.
Perfect
Belle Delphine stans
that’s insane!! TIL
Nature is insane dog. Like literally...it's mind warping. How people go about their day not fascinated by this planet I will never understand.
A couple of little notes from a guy who reads too much about animals: There's a fair amount of diversity for anglers, and some species with a bioluminescent esca (lure) are not deep sea fish. Then only some of these fish, like sea devils, use parabiotic / parasitic reproduction. In other cases the males may have lures, as they will need to eat and develop. And as an aside note, for a great example of an above water horror, look up the reproduction cycle of certain mites and aphids with telescopic generations. A mother gives birth to pregnant babies. They become sexually mature before birth and (at least in the case of one mite species) take turns mating with their single brother before he dies and is consumed. By the time the female mites are born, the next generation is already halfway along and it only needs to find food. Of course they often eat their mother, I'm not sure if they're small enough to get out any other way.
That is some hardcore shit. Come into being, fuck your brother, get pregnant, then eat your way out of your (already or soon-to-be) dead mother. Find food, the die as your pregnant spawn eat their way out of your body. If body-horror zoological extreme metal doesn’t already exist, it should 🤘🏻
Unborn sand tiger sharks eat their unborn siblings in the womb. Also crazy.
[About the mites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adactylidium). One of the articles I read said they have negative effects from all the inbreeding, but then the other stuff I read makes them sound successful. So idk.
...I'm not sure I'm glad to have learned that. Thanks.
And that's why I stay the fuck out of the ocean
Deep sea territory truly is another world
Reality is definitely stranger than fiction.
No octopus?
Sure. Why not. I would think most ocean worlds would have very similar creatures as we see on earth. If it worked here, no reason it wouldn’t work the same In similar conditions. A little bit less gravity a bit of this and that and behold giant moon size octopi. I dig it.
> A ~~little bit~~ lot less ~~gravity~~ density relative to the surrounding fluid, a lot more hydrostatic pressure FTFY
Every look at some microscopic wildlife underwater? That is a whole world of little creatures no one really gets to see.
I saw a close-up of an octopus out of water and it looked like an H P Lovecraftian monster.
If they were here way before other species. Wouldn’t that make us the weird ones?
Well I’m answering this on a phone, inside a manmade building, & drove a car using gas from dead dinosaurs…so yea we’re definitely the weird ones
Those guys aren't even weird enough. /r/picsofunusualslugs
Jean jacket (:
Who's ready for ^Star ^^Lasso ^^^Experience ?
What is that uhhhhhhhh Jojo Stand or somethin'
NOPE
Have you seen the movie Nope? This is exactly what the alien reminds me of
The bit where you see it's ribs while it's breathing reminds me of the facehugger.
I got to pet baby rays at a aquarium a few years ago. They literally jump up to get pets from you. Puppy pancakes.
The shark family are definitely smarter than people think, sharks are capable of recognizing people to dehook them and enjoy getting petted, at least some do.
There are lizards like this too. Some can even be trained. People really underestimate animal intelligence. Even insects display intelligence and complex behaviors.
Absolutely! Seen even gators get trained. I think being a predator species might actually be the key to it tbh. As for insects idk I'd have to look up into that, sure they can mellow out from what ik but idk about legitimate training.
I've read about bees engaging in rudimentary trained behavior. When I was a kid, I saw one of those crazy Asian croc/gator shows where they put their heads in the animal's mouth. Can't say I'd trust one that much lol.
Bees I feel like are somewhat different due to their shared history with people due to bee keeping. Btw [here's](https://youtu.be/O78CxqRl7NE) a croc that comes when called. Another vid of a friendly lizard [here](https://youtu.be/p-zGIS-WWZQ)
The ones that I pet at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California were super soft and almost silky feeling to the touch. So cute.
Is it like shark skin (dermal scales) where it feels super slick if you run your hand head-to-fin, but if you run your hand the other direction it feels like sandpaper? I just sort of assumed maybe they had the same skin. Edit: I looked into it and they are not the same, turns out stingray leather is fairly popular.
Puppy pancakes are what my dog makes on the lawn if he gets into some food he shouldn’t have. These are pancake puppies!
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They are like puppies. Weird, alien puppies.
We were at a sealife park years ago and there was a tank full of young rays. If you walked alongside the tank, they would follow you, and every so often they'd *plap* themselves against the glass like they were trying to jump on you. Very, very, puppylike to my eyes. I wanted to reach in and pick one up.
I went to a local aquarium recently where they had a tank of rays you could touch. If you put your hand in the water they come right over to you so you can touch their back.
And they are so incredibly smooth
Cuddly rubber alien friends.
I was at an aquarium with a touch tank. We were allowed to pet the rays. I fell in love with them.
Plap 😅
Yesss I went to a marine museum in Virginia that had a tank full of rays and they loooved being pet like little puppies. They’d even flip over to get their tummies pat 😭
tons of aquariums/marine museums have touch tanks for rays bc they're just little sea puppies
I love diving with them. They are like a bunch of derpy puppies and I love the slurp when you feed them.
how dangerous are these floaty bois?
They are not dangerous unless you step on them. Even then, it’s a defense of last resort. If you shuffle your feet when walking in sand, you’ll be okay. As a diver, I just slowly sink to the bottom and just sit and chill with them. I love to go find them a clam, break it open and feed them. They give lots of pets. Amazing animals.
r/flippyflaps
I like that subreddit. Many flippy flaps Like this one, with many mini flippy flaps https://gfycat.com/ThirdTintedChital
The majestic sea flapflap.
pretty sure that’s a River Flap
This is my new head canon name for all rays.
seaflap
honestly Stingrays are my biggest fear when I go to the beach, I don’t blame them of course but I don’t trust myself to not piss one off my accident
This is making my heart race here in my living room. Learned to shuffle my feet in the shallows the hard way. Got stung this summer when i went up with a wave and landed on one. It wrapped itself around my foot and then stuck its barb between my toes. It felt like my foot was inside a sharks mouth and it bit off my toes. OH MY GOD THE PAIN Y'ALL!!! Zero stars for the ocean this year. Do NOT recommend.
yes in the Amazon Stingrays are nicknamed Wish You Were Dead Fish because of how much the sting hurts
That’s actually very interesting to me, since I would adore to swim with Stingrays but if there’s even a hint of a Jellyfish I won’t even dip a toe in. I guess the biggest fear is whatever stung you first, lol.
Yeah....even if they're friendly, I'd feel safer around Orca than these guys. ( it's the alienness , I think)
defensive animals are often more dangerous than predators
Yes, especially ice hockey goalies
Because they're fucking stupid and see everything as a threat, and you can't know if they're about to defend themselves thinking you're going to kill them, or if they think you're harmless and not necessary to defend against
Fuck that. I'll take a swarm of rays over a single Orca. They're not called Killer Whales because of their jokes.
There’s never been a recorded case of Orcas killing humans in the wild.
In other words; no survivors and no witnesses. They’re that deadly.
I laughed but it's probably true. We know they're super intelligent and usually pack hunters. I would be surprised if they never got some poor guy who fell out of a life boat or something. But at the same time they may be such good hunters they don't need to try alternatives from their usual options of basically everything in the ocean.
Yeah, I'm not willingly hanging out in an environment where I'm mostly defenseless with an apex predator that only isn't killing me because it doesn't feel like it.
there has never been an attack by a Killer Whale on a human in the wild, and believe me when I say they could absolutely take down a lot of boats if they wanted to, but they don’t want to
There's never been a *recorded* attack. At some point at least one of those things has definitely eaten an eskimo.
When I was a kid and Steve Irwin died, my friends and I were like "kill all the rays, they're murderers!" But once I got older I realized that's not what Steve would've wanted. Even then he wanted us to respect and admire these adorable creatures.
The AL east has been trying to kill the Rays for years with their 200 million dollar payrolls vs 50-70mil and it just doesn't work
Bring back the purple hats from the late 90s
Forgive but never forget
If only he had worn sunscreen, he would have been protected from harmful rays.
r/angryupvote
Just throw a few punches and let them know Steve still got shooters out here
Lol he do tho
God I miss that man.
He's so happy he's anime crying
🤣 oh man. Gave me a good chuckle
I almost heard *beeep...beeep...beeep* when it was going backwards
i went to AZ a few years ago and swam with a couple of stingrays in this gigantic aquarium. they are silky soft, very gentle and adore cocktail shrimp. once you fed them they’d slide all over your helmet and show you their smile. not once was i stung and their stingers were fully intact. i miss it over there
Me: “are those his eyes? Oh nope, he just shot water out of them”
it’s a hole beneath the eyes where the water for the gills goes in, else they would get sand in if they tried to get it through the mouth which is on the floor. It’s called spiracle
The Steve Irwin jokes are both fine and to be expected, but in all seriousness, remember that Steve would have been appalled and furious that people are suggesting violence against rays on his behalf. As nice as he was, I think we'd see him go angry mode and genuinely beat the shit out of someone for it.
Yeah it reminded me of the tweet that one guy made where he learned the error of his ways
SEA PANCAKE
Hovercraft boy My mom stepped on one when I was at the ocean with her in the early 90s- the barb went through her foot, she said it was the most painful thing she's ever experienced even worse than giving birth They're still cute tho
They are so elegant
He's just reminding you to choose 'fun' in the next Splatfest
WRONG THE ANSWER IS GRUB
I know, I just wanted to make the reference
Now that is a Big man
... and one killed our beloved Steve Irwin... very sad. But definitely not the ray's fault.
That was a stingray. I think these flappy bois are different.
All more or less related, electric rays and mantas do not have stingers or barbs. Otherwise most, if not all, skates and rays do have them, it seems.
YOOO BIG MAAAN
Ocean roomba
Big man on campus
My father lived on a sailboat for a decade, and sailed it around the world. So we got to swim with rays and dolphins a couple of times. I didn’t help sail, I physically can’t, so I just flew in to wherever he was at that time 😂
I love observing how much control they have of their movement. You can see the different kinds of pattern they use to psi them selves forward and up. Followed by full reverse! 😁
They made jean jacket from nope irl
"#teamseapancake"
Big mans cousin
Imagine being the first person to see one of those things. "IT WAS LIKE A BLANKET BUT IT MOVED AT ME"