Why won’t you fit in my mouth!
so cozy 🐟
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FosterMolasses@leminal.space 5 hours ago
Sea cuddles 🥰
First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
In Portuguese they’re literally called mantas aka blankets
cazssiew@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That… never occurred to me before. Wow.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Oh my god
Manta ray
Its a blanket ray
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 5 hours ago
Hahaha that’s so cute
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
All he needs is an underwater campfire.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Careful with those, you could attract a sea bear. Make sure you draw a proper anti sea bear circle around you.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 5 hours ago
Not an oval! It has to be a circle!
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
But make sure to check the sea fire risk index first
Grass@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
idk I see this and think of that kakopo video with the line “you’re being shagged by a rare parrot”
Xerxos@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Aren’t they dangerous?
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 5 hours 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.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
A pissed off stingray is what killed Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
moody@lemmings.world 21 hours 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.
indorri@hexbear.net 22 hours ago
At the very least, the ones in Grand Cayman are really docile and friendly to humans.
marcos@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The danger is not they biting you.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 21 hours ago
It’s not called a bite-ray.
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 18 hours ago
A stingstay
Bazell@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Nom, nom. .
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
From this perspective it looks like they are trying to mimic a hermit crab
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Does anyone know what this Stingray is trying to do?
Is it accustomed to people feeding it and trying to get his attention?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 hours 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!”
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 hours 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.