WhyReef - Fun Facts
The blue-spotted stingray sports two sharp spines on the tip of its venomous tail. By flipping its tail, it can attack its enemies and inject them with deadly venom. As if this weren’t enough, it hunts its prey using electroreception, sensing the electric fields given off by other animals. To catch its prey, it pins them to the reef bottom and then crushes them with the tooth plates in its mouth.
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