The official podcast of the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Gain new insights into the animals — even the human kind — living and working in one of the world’s largest freshwater-focused aquariums!
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Episode #20 – Everybody Loves Rays, Man
Whether you think of them as the horizontally compressed cousins of sharks or “majestic underwater flap-flaps,” there’s no denying that stingrays are some of nature’s most interesting aquatic animals.
This listener-request special episode features a panel of aquarists whose job it is to care for the many species of stingrays that live at the Aquarium. We chat about the different types of rays that reside in our exhibits, how they reproduce, their capacity to learn and their perhaps-surprising love of bubbles.
Watch the don’t-do-this-if-you-like-your-clothes-dry approach we take to feeding our Cownose Rays.
Episode cast:
- Casey Phillips, Senior Communications Specialist, Host and amateur stingray-watcher
- Kyle McPheeters, Life Support System Lead Aquarist
- Cody Beavers, Aquarist II
- Brenda Salgado, Aquarist II
Upcoming Episodes
- Birding 101
- Diving at the Aquarium
- A Ribbiting Discussion of Frogs
