If it expels it, how quickly would it grow back? It would leave the animal defenseless, and being serrated, I would think that w/b sufficient without having to expel it. I've read different things, and having just watched a CNN video re: the 81 yr old man who was pierced in the chest, a person talked about how the ray "fired its barb" and how "they're not sharpshooters".
2006-10-20 23:47:10 · 8 answers · asked by Mary C 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The barb is located at the base of the stingray's tail. It does not shoot or fire it in any way. It simply lashes upward with its tail and drives the barb into an enemy, just like a man stabbing with a knife. The stinger is not always lost, but it does have multiple barbs along both edges (it is rather flat, like a thick knife blade, not round), so if it is solidly embedded in the enemy, it may pull loose, in which case the ray grows a new one. Also, unlike a wasp stinger, a stingray stinger is not hollow and does not inject anything. It is simply a physical weapon, like a dagger, not a chemical one.
Almost all human injuries from stingrays occur on the lower legs, as a result of stepping on them while walking in fairly shallow water. Injuries to the upper body are relatively rare, but usually occur when a diver is swimming right along the bottom, and passes over a stingray lying on the bottom (they cover themselves with a thin layer of sand, and can be very difficult to see).
2006-10-21 05:14:22 · answer #1 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stingray Stinger
2016-12-16 19:46:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stingray Barb
2016-10-04 09:41:48 · answer #3 · answered by regula 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stingrays have a set of barbs each one smaller than the next. As one is used the next one in line grows to replace it. Very similar to the way sharks replace lost teeth.
2006-10-21 08:07:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that would be wise. I got stung by a Bee once, and I pulled the sting out, which is a huge mistake, because it just pushes the poison further in. You have to scrape it out with disinfected needle. But I was only 10.
2016-03-17 05:15:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They dont fire it,but uses muscles to kind of shoot it into an animals body,that is insert the barb,not fire it and therefore doesnt lose it.
2006-10-21 00:23:21 · answer #6 · answered by farhan ferdous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slap a sting ray nd ask yourself.
Nd if ur still alive pls lemme no the answer
2006-10-21 00:05:12 · answer #7 · answered by Einstein 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's more like a wasp. It can break off, but it is not fired.
2006-10-20 23:49:57 · answer #8 · answered by hrwwtp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋