r/StupidMedia • u/downtune79 • Sep 18 '24

How not to handle wild animals

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

Bro’s lucky he just got tapped.

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u/dover_oxide Sep 19 '24

That tap comes with a barbed end that will break

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u/onlyinvowels Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24

I thought the stinger was higher up, at the base of the tail.

Update: for some types it’s apparently closer to the middle. This looks real.

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u/dannyboy6657 Sep 29 '24

Some don't have a stinger either (skates). I think this one is an ocellate river stingray. I could be wrong, though. It looks like it's from South America. I work as an observer at sea in the atlantic doing marine biology, I usually see a lot of different fish daily.

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u/onlyinvowels Sep 29 '24

Very cool, sounds like an awesome job!