stingray
స్టింగ్రే
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Eleven of these are of the shark variety, who live in blissful harmony with stingrays , thornback rays, conger eels and dogfish, to name but a few.
a bottom-dwelling marine ray with a flattened diamond-shaped body and a long poisonous serrated spine at the base of the tail.
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The most dangerous part of a 'stingray' is the tail with the rather nasty serrated barb.
Here you can swim among 'stingrays' and nurse sharks in shallow, 8-to-10-feet-deep waters.
The scientist stresses that 'stingrays' only use their venom-tipped tails in extreme circumstances, and even then as a defensive reflex rather than as an attack.
People and uprooted trees were carried out to sea, while 'stingrays' and sharks were left stranded in fields and parking lots.
There were plenty of turtles, huge infestations of purple spotted 'stingrays' and some large manta rays.
The southern 'stingrays' of Stingray City in the Cayman Islands might be soft and gentle, for example, but even they can leave a nasty love-bite on the arm of anyone who doesn't appreciate how persistently they pursue a meal.
Eleven of these are of the shark variety, who live in blissful harmony with 'stingrays' , thornback rays, conger eels and dogfish, to name but a few.
Experience in Queensland has shown that some turtles unfortunately also tend to take the bait, but dolphins and 'stingrays' do not.
Over the week they were rewarded by the sight of slumbering nurse sharks, moray eels, hawksbill turtles, 'stingrays' , bounteous barracuda, big solitary midnight parrotfish and African pompano.
I felt like Alice through the looking glass, enjoying the sublime sea's surreal realm, a marine dominion ruled by 'stingrays' , dolphins, Napoleons, moray eels.
Where the boulders meet the sand there are many fish species, including 'stingrays' , parrotfish and pufferfish.
Too far from both Mahe and Praslin for land based operations to visit, they harbour an impressive diversity of marine life, including 'stingrays' and reef sharks.
In Australia, bottlenose dolphins place sponges over their snouts as protection from the spines of stonefish and 'stingrays' as they forage over shallow seabeds.
‘We do find dead 'stingrays' with their tails cut off from time to time,’ he added.
At the bow end, there is a large garden-eel colony, and off the shallower stern you will find southern 'stingrays' and spotted eagle rays.
It included many living groups: 'stingrays' , lungfish, pirarucu, piranha, goliath catfishes, some electric fishes, and cichlids.
Resting on the sand are 'stingrays' , electric rays, frogfish and the docile Port Jackson shark.
The freshwater sawfish, a ray, is related to 'stingrays' , skates, sharks, and other fishes with cartilaginous skeletons.
The hazards facing them include snakes, poisonous fish and fruit, reef sharks, moray eels, 'stingrays' , fire coral, mosquitoes, bats, fire ants, rats and wild pigs.
We see grey nurse sharks and 'stingrays' and dolphins are a common sight in the bay.
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