A giant freshwater stingray was rescued and released along the Mekong River in Cambodia after getting caught on a fisherman’s line earlier this month. The endangered creature was 13 feet long and weighed 400 pounds.
A giant freshwater stingray was rescued and released along the Mekong River in Cambodia after getting caught on a fisherman’s line earlier this month. The endangered creature was 13 feet long and weighed 400 pounds.
to a degree it's understandable that it wasn't a croc or snake that did him in. with reptiles, he just knew how to handle them, he could read their body language, he understood their striking ranges etc. freehandling a venomous snake like he did all the time is still risky and i'd never do that, particularly not while distracted by talking to the camera, but he had it figured out and it doesn't surprise me it wasn't that part of his work that killed him. with reptiles, he was always in his own element and on top of the situation. out in the water, with an animal he wasn't familiar with, that was an entirely different story, even though it's still unbelievably unlucky that the ray managed to stab him right in the heart.