Sting Rays are related to sharks. You may feed only the small ones.

They are frendly too. Their tails are used for self-defence. Stingrays can reach a length of 6ft and sometimes longer. Their usual reaction is to flee away from any disturbance. They feed on mollusks and crustaceans. Sometimes they eat small fish. They use small electro-receptors to find their prey. It's tail has a poisonous barb on the end of it. Did you know that Ancient Greek dentists used the venom from the stingrays spine as an anesthetic?

My pet Red Ear Slider

The Red Ear Slider Turtle get it's name from the distinctive red mark around  his ears and they slid off rocks and logs very quickly. They are almost entirely aquatic but they leave the water to bask in the sun or to lay eggs. They are aware of people and usually shy away from them. This turtle is a great pet and is very frendly. He does not play about his food. Did you know that thay do not have saliva glands? This means they must eat in water?

Macaws are beautiful.

Macaws are small to large in size. They are very colorful. These birds are native to Mexico, Central America and South America. Their first and fourth toes points backwards. Macaws eat a variety of foods like fruits, palm fruits, nuts, seeds, leaves, flowers, and stems.  Food eaten by them in the wild are easy to digest. Did you know that Macaws use a clay lick at times. Studies have shown a correlation between clay lick use and breeding season.

Macaws comes in many different colors and sizes.

This is one is a small one that loves Quintlin.

These are Horse Shoe Crabs

He looks pretty bad ha?? But he did not bite me and he was very friendly. There were many more where this one came from.

This is a Horse Shoe Crab

This Horse Shoe Crab is an arthropod that live in the shallow parts of  the ocean. They sometimes come to shore for mating. They are closely related to the spider and scorpion family.  They look crustaceans , but are actually chelicerata. They have five pairs of legs for walking. They eat worms and mollusks. Females grow larger than males. Horse Shoe Crabs do not have hemoglobin in their body. Hemoglobin is the stuff that makes blood red. So their blood is not red it is blue. When they feel threatened, they move into groups to make themselves look like one bigger animal. Their hard shell protest them from being eaten. Did you know that the Horse Shoe Crab has changed remarkably little in the past 250 million years.