Assertion: stingray | /r/CapableOf | feel threatened
Facets:
value: directly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Stingrays are curious and fearless, so if you do come near them they may feel threatened and sting you.
text: Stingrays use the venomous spines and serrated barbs on the base of their tails as a defense mechanism when they feel threatened.
text: When stingrays feel threatened, they use this spear to strike.
text: Stingrays do have poisonous barbs and stingers, but are very gentle creatures and rarely attack unless they feel directly threatened or in immediate danger.
text: The only time divers need to worry is when stingrays feel threatened.
text: They often have timid temperaments and only attack when they feel threatened.
text: Stingrays have several sharp and venomous barbs on their tails that they use to defend themselves when they feel threatened, though experts at the time stressed that stingrays were not usually vicious and rarely attacked and killed humans.
text: Stingrays only flick their barbs upwards in an involuntary reflex action if they feel threatened, as a defensive measure when it is caught, stepped on or otherwise disturbed,” Henningsen says.