Greatest Diameter:
Up to 4.9 feet
Greatest Weight:
More than 450 pounds
Cuts Like a Knife:
Round fit as a fiddle, the short-tailed waterway stingray may look safe, yet it has a mystery weapon: a venomous stinger. These individuals from the shark family don't regularly assault, yet they will in the event that they need to. With a specific end goal to secure themselves, when they feel debilitated, they'll lash their stingers out, leaving cuts on their foes. The lion's share of stingray wounds in people happen when individuals inadvertently venture on beams while they're strolling along the ground underneath waterways. Stingrays shield themselves from predators by covering their bodies in sand, making it simple for individuals to venture on them coincidentally.
Bunches of Little Ones:
These stingrays are the biggest of the Potamotrygon species, achieving 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) in measurement and weighing 459 pounds (208 kilograms). The biggest recorded short-tailed waterway stingray find included one weighing 661 pounds (300 kilograms). The female stingray doesn't lay eggs. Rather, it brings forth full grown, youthful stingrays and can convey upwards of 19 pups at one time. These pups eat microscopic fish, little creatures that float along in the water, after they're conceived, until they get somewhat more seasoned and begin expending little mollusks, shellfish, the hatchlings of oceanic bugs and fish.
On the Hunt:
In the freshwaters of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay is the place you'll locate these jeopardized creatures. Anglers frequently chase them for nourishment by finding the stingrays napping while the animals are resting in shallow waters. The lovely shades of the youthful short-tailed waterway stingrays place them among the numerous amphibian creatures caught and sold for aquariums. In any case, man isn't the main risk to this species. Water contamination, hydroelectric plants and environment corruption additionally assume a part in their reducing numbers.
Jeremy Wade's Tips for Catching a Short-Tailed River Stingray:
"A couple times I felt something that felt like the tail hitting the line. One thing that always stressed me was the way that, this being a stingray with an unpleasant tail, it may very well sliced through the line at any minute."