This photo is from National Geographic's article about stingrays. I did not think that it's a fish, you know. And that they can live so long, till 25 years in wild...So, this an... pardon fish is an other time a protagonist of a killing story ( freep.com, photo too ). An other person is dead from it's attack. Practicaly it was not an attack here. Stingray jumped out of the water and fall on the woman in the boat. It's a big animal, about 2 metrs large and they can weight till 350 kg, so it's possible that the woman banged her head on the boat.
The most known case of stingray's attack is the story of Steve Irwin. But he was under water.
A year befor Steve Irwin's death, an 81-old man was in the same situation of the woman in the boat, he was punctured by the burbs, but that man could survive, fortunatelly.
Is unknown why the stingrays jump out of the water. Somebody says they are afraid of something and that is why they punctured the persons in those boats. But there are very spectacular photos of flying mantas (links in the bottom). Why stingrays could not like to "fly" from time to time too?
Flying Manta RaysIs it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a flying mobula ray soaring high off the Mexican shore
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I think the recent stingray incident was just an accident, and I heard the woman hit her head falling. I think stingrays only try to defend themselves when they are scared, but normally are not dangerous to humans.
--JB
I think, you are right, JB. About this woman think the autopsy will confrm she has not puncture. What I'm afraid of, that the crowd will begin to kill these animals because it's the second case in the same place.
I figured out how to take off the word verfication. Thank you for telling me how! I hope there will not be a lot of spam now.....
Have a great Easter Sunday!
--JB
These are all creations of God. They kill!
You are right, Footiam, I would say many things in this context. I think, it was time for a woman. When our time comes, the weapon of the God has not importance.
The StingRays't tail has poison,even a small one,but in Indonesia I never heard the people killed by that fish.
In fact, these cases were in Florida. And the case with Steve in Australia, I think, but it's different.
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