• Question: when stingrays sting people, does it effect them? eg. Honey bees die once they have used their sting...

    Asked by to Aimee, Chris, Dave, Greig, Laurence on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Dave Jones

      Dave Jones answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Not much, I think! Some stingrays leave barbs in people, kind of like bee stings, but apparently once they lose one they immediately start growing another!

    • Photo: Laurence Perreault Levasseur

      Laurence Perreault Levasseur answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      I don’t think it affects them much either. Often a barb will break in the skin of the ‘victime’, but from hat I understand it has many layers of barbs and if one is lost it gets quickly replace, a bit like a shark regrows new teeth to replace lost ones (after all, stingrays and sharks are related!).

    • Photo: Greig Cowan

      Greig Cowan answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      The stinger barb can sometimes break off in the wound, but this doesn’t really affect the stingray. It does hurt the person who was stung, though!

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