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• Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How slow is a stingrays metabolism and ovulation cycle?

  Can it hold onto a fertilized egg for a long while?

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  • Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeah thats what i was thinking hell look at cuddlefish they literally mate with a bunch of males, save their sperm separately in packets and then pick the ‘best’ to optimize the genetic quality. nature is wack. would be wild to learn another creature unlocked Parthenogenesis tho.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cuddlefish are a fictional species from the game Subnautica. I think you mean cuttlefish.

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    • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just kind of assumed that stingrays were capable of parthenogenesis.

      Did a cursory search and this was the first result which put a dampener on the whole situation unfortunately.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      they literally mate with a bunch of males, save their sperm separately in packets and then pick the ‘best’ to optimize the genetic quality

      Sounds like they’ve perfected the process and us humans could learn a thing or two from them 😄

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Spindle like they don’t have time to cuddle.

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    • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honey bees are another good example of this.

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  • SystemDisc@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    By late May and June 2024, medical testing and veterinary specialists confirmed Charlotte did not have embryos, but instead suffered from a rare and fatal reproductive disease that mimicked pregnancy on ultrasounds.

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  need to vent?

  sus

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  • Quokka@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ඞ

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was doing tasks! Teal is sus

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  • RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    amogus

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  • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Vent about how stoopid people can get

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• qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Life, uhh, finds a way

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  • crimson_iris@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    5KyOiGL5Th09x6a.gif

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    • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      thanks. i needed you outweird my coworker.

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    • smh@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ELI5 WTF I’m looking at, please.

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    • degen@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Now we just need Jim Carrey crawling out of his asshole

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That sounds like parthenogenesis to me.

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And a surprisingly large number of species can do it.

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    • Newhere@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wish women could do…

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  • CatAssTrophy@safest.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The stingray ended up being sick and not actually pregnant. They were possibly seeing cysts, not eggs. Or possibly cysts and eggs and the illness caused the embryos to abort and were eaten before anyone noticed them.

    smithsonianmag.com/…/pregnant-virgin-stingray-won…

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• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sting Jesus, while obviously a joke, doesn’t really make sense does it? Wouldn’t it be Sting Mary? Or Sting Jesus’s Mom? I’m not a Bibleologist of course, I only play one in the internet.

  Big wheel keep on turnin’. Sting Mary keep on burnin’.

  I’m extremely surprised ‘’‘’‘they’‘’‘’ would think there’s any species of shark could father babies with a ray, though but then maybe I’m just a big ole dumby for thinking they would be in reference to the keepers and support staff who cared for and/or studied Sting Mary.

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  • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay, but the baby would be?

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    • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dead, there was no baby.

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  • mirshafie@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sting Jesus is the bebe.

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  • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Before Sting there was Police. So it’s Police Mary

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  • DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And to play us out, here’s String Jesus with Streams of Gold

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• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What, you’ve never nutted in a stingray before?

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Me nutting in a stingray isn’t the surprise. Her being pregnant is the surprise. This one isn’t on me!

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  • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Afterwards, it stings when you pee

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  • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Disrespectful zoophilia jokes are still a thing in 2026?

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    • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mofo, it’s 2026 ain’t it and you just read one!

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• ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some sting ray enthusiast from the staff transported sting ray semen into the tank.

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• mastod0n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shark ray pewpew

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  • unknown@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Put a fricken laser on it

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• NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We just went snorkeling with stingrays in the Bahamas, and they had the same thing happen. The enclosure was only females, and yet one of them has gotten pregnant.

  I assumed she was pregnant when the put them in the enclosure and they didn’t know it? Or that they weren’t as good at distinguishing make/female as they thought they were.

  But you know, maybe there are some cool optional hermaphroditic traits in sting rays that biologists are just currently unaware of.

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  • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Life uh… finds a way

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    • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OG Jurassic Park famous Quote

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• EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What are the odds on Kalshi?

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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I get the science parts, but how is Danielle the topic of this vent?

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was bullfuck I tell ya

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