[güttsfükk]

A stingray leaps out of the water as it is hunted by a killer whale, whose fin can be seen below the ray, just off St. Heliers beach in Auckland, New Zealand, Wednesday, June 24, 2009.

[firedog25]

That's an eagle ray, sting rays are more round in shape and are bottom dwellers.

[güttsfükk]

really? i just copy pasted the title & description from the yahoo news website, i dont know the difference myself

[firedog25]

Yah, stingray's are flatter and pretty much round. Not sure if they can make the velocity to get out of the water like that either like eagle rays and supposedly manta rays. Even when they swim around stingrays are like hovercraft staying pretty close to the bottom of the ocean. They're pretty cool animals any way you cut it. At Grand Cayman there's a sandbar off shore called Stingray City. Big tourist draw, the rays there are so used to people they let you pick them up and wander around them. Used to be an area where the fishermen would drop all the refuse from the day's catch. Now it's just a place where people from the cruise ships go to hang out and feed the rays. Walk off the sand bar and I think it's Hammerhead City, the rays stay on the sandbar because of the shark population in the deeps and the sharks stay off the sandbar even though the water is deep enough to support a fairly large shark swimming around.

[kellyhound]

What a cool pic
Story:

Five or six killer whales have been chasing stingrays within five to ten metres of the shore - moving from Okahu Bay, past Kohimarama and towards St Heliers.

Onlookers have been watching what appear to be two adult and three or four juvenile orca throwing stingrays into the air and eating them.

Members of the public have been parking on the side of the road to watch the display but traffic appears to be running smoothly.

New Zealand orcas are the only known orca group that eat stingrays as a staple food, often hunting them into shallow water and sometimes beaching themselves.

Orca Research says New Zealand has the highest rate of orca strandings in the world, about one a year, mostly from hunting errors.

Orcas also eat other foods including fish, squid, dolphins, sharks and seals.

[güttsfükk]

i've seen both the round ones and more diamond shaped ones being referred to as stingrays

[eww]

sweet i live in auckland ^^

[smackem]

sweet