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Answer Man's question is on Hendersonville's celebrity stingray, Charlotte. Why did she get herself pregnant? Joni Pin-Fitzsimmons gives insight.
The pregnancy of a stingray living in a tank without male rays has stirred a sudden interest in parthenogenesis, a scientific term that essentially means virgin birth.
Charlotte the stingray, who garnered attention earlier this year for her unaccountable pregnancy, has died, a North Carolina aquarium shared. Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO posted on Facebook ...
The southern stingray (Hypanus americanus) is a whiptail stingray found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Western Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to southern Brazil. [2] It has a flat, diamond-shaped disc, with a mud brown, olive, and grey dorsal surface and white underbelly (ventral surface). [ 3 ]
The roughtail stingray (Bathytoshia centroura) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, with separate populations in coastal waters of the northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean. This bottom-dwelling species typically inhabits sandy or muddy areas with patches of invertebrate cover, at a depth of 15–50 m (49–164 ft).
The cowtail stingray (Pastinachus sephen) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, widespread in the Indo-Pacific region and occasionally entering freshwater habitats. Other common names include banana-tail ray, drab stingray, fantail ray, feathertail stingray, and frill tailed sting ray.
Team ECCO: Updates on the pregnancy of its famous stingray Charlotte will now be posted on its social media pages on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The sharpsnout stingray feeds on small burrowing invertebrates such as worms, crustaceans, and molluscs, excavating them from the substrate and grinding them apart with its pavement-like teeth. [6] Like other stingrays, this species is aplacental viviparous , with females giving birth to 1–3 young every year.