What do stingrays actually eat? New study reveals some only prefer a single type of prawn
- Written by Jaelen Nicole Myers, Research Officer, TropWATER, James Cook University
A cowtail stingray.Scott Plume/iNaturalist, CC BY-NCAs an ecologist who studies stingrays, people always ask me: what do these creatures eat? It may well be the reason I’ve spent the past three years tackling this very question.
We do know that, generally speaking, stingrays like eating benthic invertebrates – creepy-crawlies buried in...





