Amazing Video of Stingray Giving Birth

No Steve's were harmed in the making of this film.
 
RazzleFish said:
It is interesting to see but she was probably aborting the babies because of the stress. It was likely a last ditch effort to save the next generation.........

It's sad that the mother will likely die due to the trauma.

What I find different about the birth is that they all came out tail first. It's odd because I thought their spine would puncture the mother on the way out but it's obvious that none did.
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I think I saw on the Discovery channel somewhere that the barb on the tail doesn't harden until it's out of the mother.

Quick google gave me a site http://www.maxsidorov.com/family/stingrays.html

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" The baby rays are born tail first, with their wings rolled up. Their poison spine is rubbery and has a protective covering so that the mother is not stung while giving birth. Within a few days, the ray's spine hardens."
 
khanha3 said:
I think I saw on the Discovery channel somewhere that the barb on the tail doesn't harden until it's out of the mother.

Quick google gave me a site http://www.maxsidorov.com/family/stingrays.html

near the bottom

" The baby rays are born tail first, with their wings rolled up. Their poison spine is rubbery and has a protective covering so that the mother is not stung while giving birth. Within a few days, the ray's spine hardens."
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Well that makes sence.
 
The whole time, I was screaming, "Put them in the water!! Put them back in the water!!!". I don't like fishing for this reason, it looks/is cruel and although he did put them back, it was hard to watch.
 
yes its intresting to see a member of the shark family give bith too live young, but that was disgusting in the way those fish where treated. and i no ur going to say they have a sting ,but u can also handle these fish without having the barb going into u . and to leave the babies on the decking for such an amount of time OMG
 
IAM A ANGLER and i can safley say the fish i handle aint harmed hurt or put thro any distress. they are caught unhooked and either returned or placed into a net with wet hands or wet cloth, because if u handle a fish with dry hands its like a hot iron being used
 
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