What are the fun facts of stingray?

Stingray is a kind of cartilaginous fish that lives in the shallow waters. It has a flat body. It’s skeleton is made up of cartilages (just like your ears). While its eyes are located on the dorsal side, my mouth, nostrils, and gill slits are situated on its underbelly.

It is an ovoviviparous creature. That is, the young are hatched from eggs held within the body of the female.

It is not usually aggressive and it attacks humans only when provoked. Contact with the stinger causes local trauma, pain and swelling. The sting may become fatal only if the affected area is a vital organ.

Stingrays use a super set of senses to search for food. Special gel-filled pits across the front of their face, (called Ampullae of Lorenzini), allow them to pick up electrical signals from other animals when they move – cool! Their eyes are on the topside of their body and their mouth and gills can be found underneath, so in the darker depths or murky rivers this electromagnetic sense is especially useful for searching for prey.

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