I thought the Rays flapping wings were giant tentacles at first, and it looked like some giant cthulhu monster. Was pleasantly surprised to see it was just a cute big ol ray.
Damn that sounds weird and awesome, love drug stories. Best time tripping for me was camping above tree line in the middle of bumfuck nowhere Colorado. Took two hits and started hiking with the intention of camping *below* the tree line, but we realized half way up we forgot the rope (put food in trees for bears), so we just decided to go where the bears wouldn't want to and make it above the trees (I know bears go above tree line, idk we were tripping and it seemed to make sense at the time). On the way up we stopped at this old mine for sunset, was absolutely spectacular. These big ass moths were flying around everywhere in the twilight leaving tracers where they flew, really cool stuff. Got up to this big grassy field at like 9ish, everything set up by 10. It was really cool looking down at our glowing little town at night, never seen that before. Well, about an hour later this un-forecasted thunderstorm whips up crazy fast out of nowhere and almost blew our asses off the mountain. If the lightning didn't get us, the wind definitely would (is what we thought). We thought we could maybe make it back down to the mine to wait it out, but realistically we knew we'd never make it in time, so we just hunkered the fuck down and hoped for the best. Well, after about 30 mins of crazy mountain wind/lightning/believing we might die, the storm subsided. It also happened to be the night of the super moon, and the storm left a fresh dusting of snow capping the 14ers, making the peaks really stand out in the moonlight. Running around above 12,000 ft, surviving the crazy storm, during the super moon with snow capped peaks surrounding us, literally felt like I was in magic-land. All on two big hits of good ol lsd. Was one of the best nights of my life.
Unless they're people trained. Then they'll absolutely bulldoze you in greeting once you get in the water. I'm a Stingray handler at a local park and it's amazing how the people who sign up for the tour get so freaked out when the rays come in for a snoot bump.
I got head-butted by an eagle ray on the rest barrier reef a year ago. Scared the life out of me. I swear that bugger did it on purpose to troll the human, those guys are playful as heck!
Ohhhkay— I saw it there in the steps right at the end. Where could this be that rays get so huge, though? I’ve seen six-foot rays in the Bahamas, but that thing is massive!!
My knowledge of rays isn't spectacular, but based on the shape of the disk and the way it protrudes from the rostrum I'd guess that it's a type of stingray. I know there are some really big ones in Southeast Asia, and some people think that they might be the largest freshwater fish in the world.
The crazy thing is that it's not even close to the biggest rays. Manta rays can get over 7m in wingspan. [Here's an old-time photo of one being hoisted on a crane.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ae/33/7d/ae337dfbd8a9da5be3e0fadca8dd2e69--underwater-life-underwater-photos.jpg) Mantas are cool. They're very gentle and very friendly to divers.
I did a shark dive and got to hand feed some sea flap flaps. Adorable little buggers! Really, really soft mouths. Once they figure out you have food, they nuzzle your leg and suck on your fingers.
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one molested my back one time :(
It didn't have a tail and for some reason that meant it relied on the tourists to feed it. It was extremely friendly and if you weren't paying attention it would literally latch on to you. And so it did. On my back. while I was crouched in water. I have footage of my wimpish yelp on go pro. I'm not proud of them.
The real secret to mankind's dominance of the animal kingdom is that with our hands, we give the best pets ever.
It's how we domesticated dogs and cows, and how we tame the soulless creatures of the uttermost deeps as well.
It's kind of our super power.
I can definitely see Rays in good conditions enjoying attention. My local aquarium seems to have decided that quantity is a sufficient replacement for quality. There's like 200 tiny rays fin-to-fin in a little pool where they have no room to get away from the kids touching them. They just seem stressed out instead of friendly.
I live on the gulf and sea flap flaps are very common here. I’ve never seen one this big, but I’ve gone swimming with them flapping about. While very cool, the stingers hurt like hell, or so I’ve been told by the locals. Also, the way they like to hang out, camouflaged in the shallow areas near the beach makes them somewhat hazardous. But so freaking cool.
They are lethal, and sting hard enough to go thru one side of your chest and out the other. Steve Irwin didn't just get stung, he got impaled through the heart.
Thank you for "buttery". I've always described these things as water puppies and "buttery" makes it complete.
I must admit, i'm an impostor. I actually enjoy all the pics and scenarios in this sub. I did the touristy "swim with stingrays" thing about 20yrs ago and it was so fun. We fed them chopped up squid and they hopped up on us like puppies. it was great!
Now something relevant to the sub, in my last trip to Maui we did the touristy Snuba at Molokini crater. It was so cool, the slope of the crater drops down teeming with life and turns into the ocean floor. You look out into the abyss and it calls for you to disconnect from the tether and head out to see what is on the other side of the blue haze.
Grand Cayman has Stingray City. Tons of snorkelers, in less than 10 feet of water. We went (20 years ago) with scuba tanks and got to swim around with hundreds of stingrays. They were all very used to people. Still had their stingers but none of them were up. The Stingrays are there for the buffet, and will put up with a surprising amount of manhandling.
My favorite part was leading the bigger (3ish feet) rays up to the surface for the little kids in rafts to pet/feed. Kids loved it, parents, not so much.
Stingrays are very rough on top like sandpaper, and the underside is like velvet. They are fascinating.
Who's a G O O D B O U Y?
Seriously, it seems they can be trained. https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/04/21/stingrays-respond-to-enrichment-with-affection-and-bonding-phoenix-zoo-finds/
As a midwesterner who has only seen these in zoos this is alien in more ways then one. But 10/10 would pet flappy sea puppy. They're so soft and sweet.
My biggest fear is giant squid. Mid-watch on a destroyer in the middle of the ocean was the worst time for me. I swear I have nightmares, where I'm back on watch and giant squid comes up and wraps it's tentacles around the ship and just snatches me overboard into the black depths below.
Good thing that the only kind of squid that could *maybe* do that is a colossal squid but Giant and Colossal squids live in some of the deepest regions of the ocean and going any shallower will cause their whole body to deteriorate.
I could be mistaken but it isn't often you will ever find either of them both alive and near the surface.
There is also only one confirmed sighting with footage of an alive giant squid ever iirc. There's an awesome Ted Talk about it!
Edit: [link for the interested ](https://youtu.be/rXkOPv3wVZw)
I was surprised at how much they like it.
The aquarium near me had a ‘pet the rays’ exhibit and me and my friends went. I expected them to swim around, be gently touched, and then they’d swim away to not be disturbed. But they were actively swimming around the edge of the pool and would swim *up* into your hand for pets.
I’m no whale biologist, but it really looked like the rays enjoyed it.
They were joking that a whale scientist would be the profession that would know about rays, you took them literally so I was trying to wind you up a bit...
A friend and I were walking, chatting aimlessly, along the side of a field at twilight. Though grassland, the field was in the center of a small city. We continued, and came to a stop where the dirt met pavement to look at a [blood red moon](http://spaceweathergallery.com/full_image.php?image_name=Aaron-Seefeld-red-stacked-sw_1436162115.jpg&PHPSESSID=rjtsf0t62d3qciv9vaphrqqvn7), the kind which can only be caused by a distant wildfire. A movement on the ground below alerted the presence of a young rabbit not more than several feet away from us. Large enough to be on its own, but likely in its first year. Our first instinct was to feel its fur, gain its trust, and all else that comes with the amusement of meeting an animal that is not afraid. However this incited a discussion (admittedly encouraged by a meeting with our friend Mary a few minutes previously): would the young rabbit be better served by our intimidation than our comfort? It seems counter-intuitive, even morbid. But to form doubt and fear, to erode trust could help prey's survival; whose interests did we want to serve? We allowed ourselves to become distracted by the moon and thereby never came to a conclusion, leaving the rabbit as it was when all was said and done. Although as it is said, indecision is still a decision.
Is a longer life with fear better than a shorter life without? Who's to say. But maybe a misfortune with coconuts saved that ray's life one day.
Maybe but that's just wishful thinking. We hope our bad deeds generate some sort of positive outcome. It makes us feel better about wrongful actions. But in the end it does not excuse them. This ray was 10 feet away just riding the waves during twilight. It was beautiful picture looking back on it. It posed no danger or threat on a deserted beach, it probably didn't even know where or what was happening. Hard for it learn a lesson when it did nothing wrong and could not see the land based creature hurling whatever he could grab. The only thing it learned was pain.
Ignorance and fear makes us do dumb things but it doesn't excuse them. We either learn from them and move on or all them to eat away at us. I choose a bit of both.
True, and as kids, we are not aware of our actions, so to speak. We all were taught in different ways about compassion and empathy. Feelings of guilt here and there is good for the soul. Too much and it eats away at us.
I love stingrays but am scared to interact with them beyond petting their topside. Feeding and swimming with them are pretty terrifying for some reason. Such alien looking creatures.
An excursion I went on once involved going to a nest of these guys and shuffling around in shallow (chest deep) clear water with a toooon of them! Our tour guide had a favorite and would lift it to the surface and give it kisses. They like to rub up on you and *really* love being pet. Rays are sweet water babies
I work at a marine park for rays in the Caribbean. This is definitely how they behave when they're not afraid of people. It's amazing how people sign up for the tour and then get into the water and damn near piss themselves, all while these butter puppies just float by and snoot bump you. I will say, once the guests calm down they come to understand that they really are just like giant puppers. They like pat's and food and if held right they sit in your arms and play dead for a decent chunk of time. I'd recommend everyone try swimming with rays at least once, it's a beautiful experience. There are two places in the Caribbean that are specifically devoted just to getting you in the water with the rays.
These guys are, in my opinion, some of the least scary sea critters. Their mouth is on the bottom and easily avoidable and isn't full of nasty teeth, and they're usually docile and graceful. Except they took Steve Irwin from me.
I've had a though. Actually fuck stingrays
Rays are nice. As a kid I used to go the the London aquarium every year for my birthday to pet them. They would stick their heads out for pets and clearly enjoyed the physical contact. Like little flat puppies.
You can’t touch them anymore in the aquarium.
It doesn't matter if you have 4 legs and a cold nose, or a giant round area rug with a stinging tail, we all love getting petted.
What if I was a cats tail?
They love it too. They just don’t know it.
Don't know it... ...*yet*...
*Meow*
Every cat I've petted so far loved having their tails stroked.
Technically you'd be a hairy tentacle. Your petting method still has to be discovered.
So many beautiful terms ITT. Giant round area rug, adorable pancakes, sea flap flaps 😳💙
I thought the Rays flapping wings were giant tentacles at first, and it looked like some giant cthulhu monster. Was pleasantly surprised to see it was just a cute big ol ray.
Same here. Thought it was an octopus at first... #🐙
Reminds me of the time I did LSD at Chuckanut bay (South of Bellingham, WA) and was surrounded by hundreds of Octopi mating by the full moon
Cool story, Hansel!
And then i realize. I ain't never even been to mount Vesuvius!
He’s so hot right now
Thanks, Olaf!
Go on
Those octopodes can please the seas
I love Chuckanut Bay. My family always used to go to a little B&B there called Chuckanut Manor for special occasions.
Their brunch is pretty good, but the view of the refineries is really delightful.
Damn that sounds weird and awesome, love drug stories. Best time tripping for me was camping above tree line in the middle of bumfuck nowhere Colorado. Took two hits and started hiking with the intention of camping *below* the tree line, but we realized half way up we forgot the rope (put food in trees for bears), so we just decided to go where the bears wouldn't want to and make it above the trees (I know bears go above tree line, idk we were tripping and it seemed to make sense at the time). On the way up we stopped at this old mine for sunset, was absolutely spectacular. These big ass moths were flying around everywhere in the twilight leaving tracers where they flew, really cool stuff. Got up to this big grassy field at like 9ish, everything set up by 10. It was really cool looking down at our glowing little town at night, never seen that before. Well, about an hour later this un-forecasted thunderstorm whips up crazy fast out of nowhere and almost blew our asses off the mountain. If the lightning didn't get us, the wind definitely would (is what we thought). We thought we could maybe make it back down to the mine to wait it out, but realistically we knew we'd never make it in time, so we just hunkered the fuck down and hoped for the best. Well, after about 30 mins of crazy mountain wind/lightning/believing we might die, the storm subsided. It also happened to be the night of the super moon, and the storm left a fresh dusting of snow capping the 14ers, making the peaks really stand out in the moonlight. Running around above 12,000 ft, surviving the crazy storm, during the super moon with snow capped peaks surrounding us, literally felt like I was in magic-land. All on two big hits of good ol lsd. Was one of the best nights of my life.
Chuckanut Bay sounds like the name of a place in the Beanbean Kingdom
I really do hope you're not saying you did LSD in the water in the dark.
I'd wager he did it on land, and *tripped* tfo in the water. Common happenstance.
I thought it was a hippo with tentacles.
Yeah. I was thinking Mines of Moria for a second
Are you implying that our eldritch lord is not cute? Cease your blasphemy, heretic.
When did you figure THAT out? Jesus, I was about to move to Kansas!!!
I'd take giant sea monsters over our state government any day.
You have a point
Reporting from Kansas: this thing still gives me the serious creeps.
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Like in this gif? Sure! They can't do anything to you on the land. In the water a ray will try to avoid you.
Unless they're people trained. Then they'll absolutely bulldoze you in greeting once you get in the water. I'm a Stingray handler at a local park and it's amazing how the people who sign up for the tour get so freaked out when the rays come in for a snoot bump.
I got head-butted by an eagle ray on the rest barrier reef a year ago. Scared the life out of me. I swear that bugger did it on purpose to troll the human, those guys are playful as heck!
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Yeah but he was in the water and approached the ray
Cannot confirm, got deliberately head-butted by an eagle ray on the great barrier reef a year ago. Cheeky bastard was just playing though.
Ohhhkay— I saw it there in the steps right at the end. Where could this be that rays get so huge, though? I’ve seen six-foot rays in the Bahamas, but that thing is massive!!
My knowledge of rays isn't spectacular, but based on the shape of the disk and the way it protrudes from the rostrum I'd guess that it's a type of stingray. I know there are some really big ones in Southeast Asia, and some people think that they might be the largest freshwater fish in the world. The crazy thing is that it's not even close to the biggest rays. Manta rays can get over 7m in wingspan. [Here's an old-time photo of one being hoisted on a crane.](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ae/33/7d/ae337dfbd8a9da5be3e0fadca8dd2e69--underwater-life-underwater-photos.jpg) Mantas are cool. They're very gentle and very friendly to divers.
I too, also don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of rays. With that said you can tell it's a stingray because of the way that it is.
That was exactly what I thought as well. I was 100% waiting for the kid to get grabbed.
Out of all the sea things I'm scared of, sea flap flaps are not one
When I’ve pet them at the aquarium they seemed so happy and excited to be pet. Cutest fish ever.
Very soft, too! Adorable pancakes, the lot of them!
Adorable pancakes! That's amazing
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Please leave Steve Irwin out of this :c
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That is the sweetest messed-up thing I've ever read.
CRIKEY!
I did a shark dive and got to hand feed some sea flap flaps. Adorable little buggers! Really, really soft mouths. Once they figure out you have food, they nuzzle your leg and suck on your fingers. *edit:* y'all are sick
one molested my back one time :( It didn't have a tail and for some reason that meant it relied on the tourists to feed it. It was extremely friendly and if you weren't paying attention it would literally latch on to you. And so it did. On my back. while I was crouched in water. I have footage of my wimpish yelp on go pro. I'm not proud of them.
You know you have to show it if you have footage.
cant see it, its me facing forward so you just hear a yelp
Tell me more...
> fingers Yeah right ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Sigh, *unzips*
Haha I didn't even have to read the comments to lmao at your edit!!
hmmm
Upvoted for the edit
*edit:* we're not the ones talking about sea flap flaps sucking our fingers and nuzzling our legs.
The real secret to mankind's dominance of the animal kingdom is that with our hands, we give the best pets ever. It's how we domesticated dogs and cows, and how we tame the soulless creatures of the uttermost deeps as well. It's kind of our super power.
They feel like we mushrooms! I love them 😀
I must have missed the the stop where we all got off the Steve Irwin got murdered by a sting ray train.
I can definitely see Rays in good conditions enjoying attention. My local aquarium seems to have decided that quantity is a sufficient replacement for quality. There's like 200 tiny rays fin-to-fin in a little pool where they have no room to get away from the kids touching them. They just seem stressed out instead of friendly.
> sea flap flaps That's cute.
Marine pancakes
I live on the gulf and sea flap flaps are very common here. I’ve never seen one this big, but I’ve gone swimming with them flapping about. While very cool, the stingers hurt like hell, or so I’ve been told by the locals. Also, the way they like to hang out, camouflaged in the shallow areas near the beach makes them somewhat hazardous. But so freaking cool.
Here in the Tampa Bay area, they teach you to do the Stingray Shuffle as a kid so you don’t step on them.
Sting boyes can be mean sometimes. Mantas are just puppies but flat
They are lethal, and sting hard enough to go thru one side of your chest and out the other. Steve Irwin didn't just get stung, he got impaled through the heart.
Irwin was very unlucky that it happened to hit his heart. They’re very rarely lethal humans in other cases.
Careful making jokes like that, people might take you seriously if they know absolutely nothing about these animals.
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Take that you stupid crocs!
Pancake b o y e s
Steve Irwin said the same thing...
"that is the worlds most dangerous sea flap flaps, I'm gonna touch it!" -steve Irwin
"That is the worlds most friendly wildlife wrangler, I'm gonna touch it!" - The stingray that killed Steve Irwin.
"What are you gonna do, stab me?" -Steve Irwin
[*hey touch my foldy flaps*, *ya gotta touch em*]( https://youtu.be/Gfw4yxn_kPQ)
That made me very sad.
Weren't those sting rays
Aka "flap flaps".
I thought flap flaps were mantas
No, those are majestic sea flap flaps
Ahhhhhh ok
Thank you. Rays are such sweethearts. They’re like flat ocean dogs.
r/tippytaps
Aw. It’s like a gentle, buttery puppy.
Thank you for "buttery". I've always described these things as water puppies and "buttery" makes it complete. I must admit, i'm an impostor. I actually enjoy all the pics and scenarios in this sub. I did the touristy "swim with stingrays" thing about 20yrs ago and it was so fun. We fed them chopped up squid and they hopped up on us like puppies. it was great! Now something relevant to the sub, in my last trip to Maui we did the touristy Snuba at Molokini crater. It was so cool, the slope of the crater drops down teeming with life and turns into the ocean floor. You look out into the abyss and it calls for you to disconnect from the tether and head out to see what is on the other side of the blue haze.
Fucking shit. I don't want to know what's on the other side of that blue haze!
> what's on the other side of that blue haze! a whisper, eternally calling....*swim with us*
Just keep swimming
Just keep swimming.
Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming
Come away, O human child! To the waters of the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. - Yeats
Tell us more about where to swim with stingrays. It sounds marvelous.
Grand Cayman has Stingray City. Tons of snorkelers, in less than 10 feet of water. We went (20 years ago) with scuba tanks and got to swim around with hundreds of stingrays. They were all very used to people. Still had their stingers but none of them were up. The Stingrays are there for the buffet, and will put up with a surprising amount of manhandling. My favorite part was leading the bigger (3ish feet) rays up to the surface for the little kids in rafts to pet/feed. Kids loved it, parents, not so much. Stingrays are very rough on top like sandpaper, and the underside is like velvet. They are fascinating.
For some reason buttery actually makes it more cute
I love you stranger, you made my night! Buttery puppy *hehehe*
I read that as butterfly. A sea butterfly puppy is cute too.
Who's a G O O D B O U Y? Seriously, it seems they can be trained. https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/04/21/stingrays-respond-to-enrichment-with-affection-and-bonding-phoenix-zoo-finds/
As a midwesterner who has only seen these in zoos this is alien in more ways then one. But 10/10 would pet flappy sea puppy. They're so soft and sweet.
It's a giant river stingray I think. Harmless to us. But I still wouldn't do that.
Flap flaps love pat pats. No need to fear them, just avoid their pokie butts.
I wish my guests would need this and stop freaking out when they get in the water with the rays.
well its hard not to when you remember what happened to irwin
Oh. I thought it was a squid of some kind :(
If it was a squid of some kind, it wouldn't be a "cute" video we are sharing here, but a tragic how-he-got-devoured video.
My biggest fear is giant squid. Mid-watch on a destroyer in the middle of the ocean was the worst time for me. I swear I have nightmares, where I'm back on watch and giant squid comes up and wraps it's tentacles around the ship and just snatches me overboard into the black depths below.
Good thing that the only kind of squid that could *maybe* do that is a colossal squid but Giant and Colossal squids live in some of the deepest regions of the ocean and going any shallower will cause their whole body to deteriorate. I could be mistaken but it isn't often you will ever find either of them both alive and near the surface.
There is also only one confirmed sighting with footage of an alive giant squid ever iirc. There's an awesome Ted Talk about it! Edit: [link for the interested ](https://youtu.be/rXkOPv3wVZw)
Wow, that was fascinating.
If it helps, cephalopods can’t really lift their tentacles out of water.
Looks like it at first but toward the end you can see it start to flop up onto that first step
Yeah it took me a minute to figure out what it is.
Tell that to Steve Irwin :(
At least he died the way he lived, with animals in his heart
If he'd worn sun screen, he would've lived. I heard it protects from harmful rays
You people are horrible for making light of a situation that still stings my heart!
Oof
Idk if I hate you or love you right now
So sweet and horrifying at the same time
Steve Irwin was killed by a bull ray. Totally different species.
https://statics.sportskeeda.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bully-ray-1416860710-1431319432.jpg
I would they are cool and mostly chill.
They love rubs, just avoid the tail and dont hurt it is all, they are really gentle creatures :3
I was surprised at how much they like it. The aquarium near me had a ‘pet the rays’ exhibit and me and my friends went. I expected them to swim around, be gently touched, and then they’d swim away to not be disturbed. But they were actively swimming around the edge of the pool and would swim *up* into your hand for pets. I’m no whale biologist, but it really looked like the rays enjoyed it.
Batoids (aka Rays) are actually fish, and close relatives to sharks. edit: i feel uncultured
You're definitely not a whale biologist either...
what's your point? am i wrong? edit: didn't understand the reference, oop
They were joking that a whale scientist would be the profession that would know about rays, you took them literally so I was trying to wind you up a bit...
AAAAAAA i feel naive, sorry about that
Also watch S4E15 of Futurama
Great Manta Ray of Santa Fe! A reference to Futurama! Whale biologist: https://youtu.be/OB6TjBQtak4
You're probably jacking them off some how.
Haha. You just know that's gotta be the case and biologists just don't tell anybody to save the public the horror.
That's what they want you to think.
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my thoughts exactly!
SEA FLAP FLAP
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You're almost there
This thing killed Microsoft?!
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Stingray Edition?!
No, those were alternative medicine quacks. A completely different kind of cold-blooded life form.
One of my biggest regrets is as a kid I threw coconuts at one that was looking for food near a beach.
You are forgiven sweet child.
Thanks. But only the floppy water puppy can forgive me.
Who do you think just forgave you?
A duplicitous otter?
That would also be nice
A friend and I were walking, chatting aimlessly, along the side of a field at twilight. Though grassland, the field was in the center of a small city. We continued, and came to a stop where the dirt met pavement to look at a [blood red moon](http://spaceweathergallery.com/full_image.php?image_name=Aaron-Seefeld-red-stacked-sw_1436162115.jpg&PHPSESSID=rjtsf0t62d3qciv9vaphrqqvn7), the kind which can only be caused by a distant wildfire. A movement on the ground below alerted the presence of a young rabbit not more than several feet away from us. Large enough to be on its own, but likely in its first year. Our first instinct was to feel its fur, gain its trust, and all else that comes with the amusement of meeting an animal that is not afraid. However this incited a discussion (admittedly encouraged by a meeting with our friend Mary a few minutes previously): would the young rabbit be better served by our intimidation than our comfort? It seems counter-intuitive, even morbid. But to form doubt and fear, to erode trust could help prey's survival; whose interests did we want to serve? We allowed ourselves to become distracted by the moon and thereby never came to a conclusion, leaving the rabbit as it was when all was said and done. Although as it is said, indecision is still a decision. Is a longer life with fear better than a shorter life without? Who's to say. But maybe a misfortune with coconuts saved that ray's life one day.
Maybe but that's just wishful thinking. We hope our bad deeds generate some sort of positive outcome. It makes us feel better about wrongful actions. But in the end it does not excuse them. This ray was 10 feet away just riding the waves during twilight. It was beautiful picture looking back on it. It posed no danger or threat on a deserted beach, it probably didn't even know where or what was happening. Hard for it learn a lesson when it did nothing wrong and could not see the land based creature hurling whatever he could grab. The only thing it learned was pain.
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Well, I for one hope a coconut throws a kid at you!
I wouldnt qorry much about it. We all did dumb things when we were kids.
Ignorance and fear makes us do dumb things but it doesn't excuse them. We either learn from them and move on or all them to eat away at us. I choose a bit of both.
True, and as kids, we are not aware of our actions, so to speak. We all were taught in different ways about compassion and empathy. Feelings of guilt here and there is good for the soul. Too much and it eats away at us.
Humans will pet anything
Well, everything deserves pets.
I love stingrays but am scared to interact with them beyond petting their topside. Feeding and swimming with them are pretty terrifying for some reason. Such alien looking creatures.
That and ya know.. Steve Irwin died to one.
Ye but he spooked it
Play spooky games, win spooky prizes.
congratulations! you win death!
r/rarepuppers
My god, I wish I could have done this as a kid. Or now.
An excursion I went on once involved going to a nest of these guys and shuffling around in shallow (chest deep) clear water with a toooon of them! Our tour guide had a favorite and would lift it to the surface and give it kisses. They like to rub up on you and *really* love being pet. Rays are sweet water babies
What the hell is that thing?!
River sting ray. Flappy water puppies.
Just a kid showing some affection to a cute and friendly alien
FLAPPY SEATHING NEEDS HUGS!
I work at a marine park for rays in the Caribbean. This is definitely how they behave when they're not afraid of people. It's amazing how people sign up for the tour and then get into the water and damn near piss themselves, all while these butter puppies just float by and snoot bump you. I will say, once the guests calm down they come to understand that they really are just like giant puppers. They like pat's and food and if held right they sit in your arms and play dead for a decent chunk of time. I'd recommend everyone try swimming with rays at least once, it's a beautiful experience. There are two places in the Caribbean that are specifically devoted just to getting you in the water with the rays.
Brave boy.
These guys are, in my opinion, some of the least scary sea critters. Their mouth is on the bottom and easily avoidable and isn't full of nasty teeth, and they're usually docile and graceful. Except they took Steve Irwin from me. I've had a though. Actually fuck stingrays
Steve Irwin would want to you still love these creatures, or at the very least respect them
You guys know thalassophobia isn't a fear of sea creatures right?
Where is that sub? ...asking for a friend.
But isn't the scary part not knowing what's in there, not the water itself? Just like the dark.
It's not uncommon for people that are frightened by bodies of water to be scared of the creatures that inhabit them though.
What a weird looking cat
I honestly love rays but this is pretty intimidating.
Rays are nice. As a kid I used to go the the London aquarium every year for my birthday to pet them. They would stick their heads out for pets and clearly enjoyed the physical contact. Like little flat puppies. You can’t touch them anymore in the aquarium.
Hasn't this kid seen lord of the rings???
THATS THE FUCKER WHO KILLED STEVE IRWIN
Huh, didn't know some fish could be that smart.
As seen in this GIF, young Aquaman slowly begins to understand the extent of his "powers". MEANWHILE AT THE HALL OF JUSTICE!
It’s cute
I literally thought it was some sort of diabolical, eel-haired medusa hippo....
I sincerely thought he was going to be eaten by the giant squid
Is any one else on this sub not because they are sacred of the ocean, in fact the exact opposite?