so cozy 🐟

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• BigBluntPapa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why won’t you fit in my mouth!

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nom nom nom.

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• First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In Portuguese they’re literally called mantas aka blankets

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  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh my god

    Manta ray

    Its a blanket ray

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    • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hahaha that’s so cute

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  • cazssiew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That… never occurred to me before. Wow.

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• saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All he needs is an underwater campfire.

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Careful with those, you could attract a sea bear. Make sure you draw a proper anti sea bear circle around you.

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    • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not an oval! It has to be a circle!

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But make sure to check the sea fire risk index first

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• Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aren’t they dangerous?

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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A pissed off stingray is what killed Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter.

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    • moody@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It literally stabbed him in the heart, which seems to me like an unlikely way to die to a stingray, but I’m no stingrayologist, so take that with a grain of salt.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I still haven’t forgiven the stingray.

      I know that Steve would say it wasn’t the stingray’s fault, that he was the one intruding and it was just defending itself, as stingrays do.

      But I’m not nearly as good a human as Steve.

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  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The main risk is that they can be very well camouflaged if they are sitting on the sea floor, so if you step on them by accident they may sting. Steve Irwin’s situation was a real oddity, as he was stung in the heart (he was swimming over top of the ray and it must have gotten spooked) - more commonly people are stung in the foot which is painful but not deadly.

    Like most wildlife, they should be given space if you are unsure. But there are many tame ones that are fed regularly near tourist resorts, and they tend to swim up and tickle your legs when you stand in the water.

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  • indorri@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At the very least, the ones in Grand Cayman are really docile and friendly to humans.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The danger is not they biting you.

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    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not called a bite-ray.

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  idk I see this and think of that kakopo video with the line “you’re being shagged by a rare parrot”

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• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does anyone know what this Stingray is trying to do?

  Is it accustomed to people feeding it and trying to get his attention?

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had an employee at a touch tank at an aquarium explain to me that stingrays swim around in giant schools constantly touching each other so they really just like being pet and touched, and as we were chatting (it was a really slow day) I could see the stingrays dancing and getting antsy because they weren’t getting enough attention and the employee just kept petting them as they kept coming up and bouncing out of the water clearly going “Pet me! Pet me!”

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    • Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re like puppies of the sea, just with stingers.

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  • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been here. Not to the ocean floor but to Grand Cayman where the Stingrays are. They are so accustomed to tourists feeding them the all gather in one area where the boats go to see them .

    For a period of time, boats were banned from this because predators figured out they could have a Stingray buffet.

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• HowAbt2day@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A stingstay

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• FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sea cuddles 🥰

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• Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nom, nom. .

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• Illogicalbit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From this perspective it looks like they are trying to mimic a hermit crab

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• Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nom <3

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