How slow is a stingrays metabolism and ovulation cycle?
Can it hold onto a fertilized egg for a long while?
I checked and looks like they may be able to hold onto sperm for a few years.
Painted turtles can hold sperms for up to 3 years and fertilize eggs from multiple clutches with saved sperm.
yeah thats what i was thinking hell look at cuddlefish they literally mate with a bunch of males, save their sperm separately in packets and then pick the 'best' to optimize the genetic quality. nature is wack. would be wild to learn another creature unlocked Parthenogenesis tho.
Cuddlefish are a fictional species from the game Subnautica. I think you mean cuttlefish.
well thats just ducking great. (obviously my autocorrect is attention seeking)
Poor touch starved autocorrect :(
I just kind of assumed that stingrays were capable of parthenogenesis.
Did a cursory search and this was the first result which put a dampener on the whole situation unfortunately.
What a roller coaster for the people caring for Charlotte. She has a lump that's probably a tumor, no it's eggs, no it's a baby, no it's a reproductive disease.
they literally mate with a bunch of males, save their sperm separately in packets and then pick the 'best' to optimize the genetic quality
Sounds like they've perfected the process and us humans could learn a thing or two from them 😄
Eugenics has been pretty problematic for humans in the past.
That's how human pregnancy works in the SF novel Ilium
Sounds like they don’t have time to cuddle.
Honey bees are another good example of this.
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Life, uhh, finds a way
That sounds like parthenogenesis to me.
And a surprisingly large number of species can do it.
The stingray ended up being sick and not actually pregnant. They were possibly seeing cysts, not eggs. Or possibly cysts and eggs and the illness caused the embryos to abort and were eaten before anyone noticed them.
Sting Jesus, while obviously a joke, doesn't really make sense does it? Wouldn't it be Sting Mary? Or Sting Jesus's Mom? I'm not a Bibleologist of course, I only play one in the internet.
Big wheel keep on turnin'. Sting Mary keep on burnin'.
I'm extremely surprised '''''they''''' would think there's any species of shark could father babies with a ray, though but then maybe I'm just a big ole dumby for thinking they would be in reference to the keepers and support staff who cared for and/or studied Sting Mary.
Okay, but the baby would be?
Dead, there was no baby.
This is the kind of early morning espresso/kratom talk I can get behind!
Rollin' on the river!
Sting Mary's womb was indeed empty, but the shape of her uterine void was mapped and used to build a functional replica of the salty messiah. When he was found floating down the Nile on a congealed foam of textile factory chemicals, the prophecy was fulfilled.
Would be, not is. Just trying to be pedantic over someone trying to be funny, don't mind me.
Sting Jesus is the bebe.
What, you've never nutted in a stingray before?
Me nutting in a stingray isn't the surprise. Her being pregnant is the surprise. This one isn't on me!
Afterwards, it stings when you pee
Unfortunately a sad followup:
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-s1-5025232/charlotte-the-stingray-pregnant-dies-north-carolina
It’s because they kept her instead of sending her to a larger aquarium or marine biology center that could support Charlotte.
Source? The provided link said she was sick which made it look like she was pregnant.
A larger aquarium might have saved her but it feels disingenuous to imply they kept her despite that when it sounds like they didn't even know there was even a problem requiring escalation until it was way too late.
They knew there was a problem months before she died, and even if they didn’t, they should have sent her somewhere with the proper resources. Instead, they kept her in a tiny “aquarium,” which is just a small room of fish tanks of aquatic animals that shouldn’t be there.
They kept her because she was making tons of money.
Had they sent her to a proper pacific research aquarium that is knowledgable about her species, she may not have died.
Poor Charlotte.
Some sting ray enthusiast from the staff transported sting ray semen into the tank.
Someone from the staff is three stingrays in a trenchcoat.
Who's that man with the three piece suit? Lookin' at stingbabe like she's mighty cute Who's that man with the three sharp limbs? Always takin' her on romantic swims
Stingray daa-aad, nobody suspects a thing!
Shark ray pewpew
Put a fricken laser on it
We just went snorkeling with stingrays in the Bahamas, and they had the same thing happen. The enclosure was only females, and yet one of them has gotten pregnant.
I assumed she was pregnant when the put them in the enclosure and they didn't know it? Or that they weren't as good at distinguishing male/female as they thought they were.
But you know, maybe there are some cool optional hermaphroditic traits in sting rays that biologists are just currently unaware of.
Life uh... finds a way
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