Also new generations of young stingrays have grown up among divers becoming specially friendly to people. Stingrays are bottom dwellers who feed primarily on mollusks and crustaceans, for which they dig in the sand, and on the occasional small fish. Stingrays naturally like shallow, sandy bottoms such as that found at Cayman's North Sound because that's where they find their food. This poisonous sting is used only for defensive purposes, mainly against sharks which are their natural predator. Wingspan can reach two meters across on large individuals, however males are noticeably smaller than females.
Stingrays bear live young.
The males have two distinctive long and narrow fins on both sides of the tail base. Stingray City is not an artificial, man-made aquarium setting with captive rays like they setup in the Bahamas in 1995. This is the real thing, this is the real ocean with real animals who are free to come and go as they choose, and they choose to be there because they hope that you might just come down there and feed them. Stingrays frequently lay buried in the sand and use their barbed tail to protect themselves from danger from above. However, stingrays are not aggressive and will flee from danger whenever possible.