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Podcast: “Everybody Loves Rays, Man”

Date Mar 26, 2025
Published in At the Aquarium

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

 

Tune in to this episode below or check out more ways to listen on our Podcast Aquatic main page.

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