Yesterday our amazing little GoPro camera took a dive into the pool over at Stingray Island! We got to see a whole new point of view to the exhibit which was fun, although some of our sea creature friends had to be reminded, “GoPros are friends, not food!” Check out the footage below:
Stingray Island is loaded with creatures of the sea–stingrays (of course), eels, a lion fish, sharks and the Horseshoe Crab.
This little guy–well, he’s not so little–looks like his neighbor stingrays but he’s actually a crab!
Is it a stingray or a crab?
At first glance he appears to be a member of the sand ray family but if you lift him onto his back you’ll see that he’s actually a crab! Horseshoe Crabs can be identified by their hard, disc-shaped shells and their large eyes. When you flip him over, you can see that although his shell resembles a stingray, his underside says otherwise.
They have five pairs of legs they use for walking, swimming and feeding. You can see him crawling along the bottom of the stingray pool, searching for food!
Photo Credit - http://www.absolutedivers.com/stingray_city.htm
If you haven’t already heard, stingrays are coming to the Fair this year! Although we will be blogging and taking pictures/video of the new exhibit we thought it would be fun to give you some facts we’ve learned about stingrays in the past month or so.
Did you know:
*Facts taken from National Geographic