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Chongqing News

New lives come to Chongqing Andover Ocean Park

2018-03-28 10:03:56

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Chongqing Andover Ocean Park recently reported that the Taeniura meyeni (commonly known as the Black-backed rays) living in the Oceanic Pool gave birth to three small stingrays. This is the first case of ray birth by artificial breeding in Chongqing Andover Ocean Park. Although the newborn stingray isn’t ready to meet the public, the good new of its arrival is indeed a great joy.

Newborn stingray (Photograph provided by Chongqing Andover Ocean Park)

The new born baby stingray has an average body length of 45cm.

The taeniura meyeni reproduce about once every six months, giving birth to six to eight babies at a time. At present, the three newborn stingrays are still too young and need to be taken good care of. So they will stay in the conservation area of the aquarium.

The three small stingrays are currently about 45 centimeters in length. Their mother is a 2-meter-long taeniura meyeni. The most unusual feature of the small stingray is the arrangement of their sand holes, mouths and branchial cleft, which looks similar to the smiling faces of humans. It's very lovely.

The three small stingrays (Photograph provided by Chongqing Andover Ocean Park)

The newborn stingrays are given a bath of fresh water every week and fed once every two days so they can meet the public as soon as possible.

Stingrays belong to the cartilaginous fish category (related to sharks) and have no fish scales on the body surface. It is common for stingrays to have parasites, which could injure the host. In order to take care of the three babies, the breeder will give them a freshwater bath once a week to remove the parasites.

The keeper is measuring the stingray's body. (Photograph provided by Chongqing Andover Ocean Park)

At present, the newborn stingrays are fed once every two days so that the public can see them as soon as possible. (Translated by Shi Yali, Fathom Language Limited)

Editor:Jiang Yiwei