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u'd think they could just leave her alone
she is pregnant too

just cuz she is endangered
doesn't mean they are gonna help anything by dragging her out

it'll probably kill her babies due to stress hormones

You'd THINK! Hope the babies are okay.

' yeah, me too

i think stingrays are the most INCREDIBLE !!!!! creatures

they are so graceful like a gigantic 771 lb eucharistic bread that is curled at the edges just WAFFFFTTTING through the electric blue waters

i am also wondering how they could not have gotten stung

and really, dragging a PREGNANT female out of her natural environment like that just to do a bit o "tagging'

sheeesh! have some respect

sorry to be this way

i just feel that certain things ought to be left alone

admire them if u must

but please especially if they are pregnant

do NOT drag the out of the ocean like that

ESPECIALLy if they are 771 lbs and have a STINGERRRR!!

this is why i find this photo above kind of suspicious

but anyhow

the cool thing is that it stirred up my imagination

and made me unbelievably happy and in wonderment knowing that such fabulous
mysterious creatures do exist

I found the whole tone of the story unsettling; very humans vs. nature: enumerating the number of men required to haul her aboard against the cited weight of the poor creature, while making it sound so noble an effort. It's like we can't even go through the motions of trying to "conserve" these creatures without demonstrating our rough dominion over them. "We have to do it this way because it's, well, the only[easy] way--aren't we wonderful for wanting to go through all this trouble to help?" How about just letting everyone in Southeast Asia know on the public radio bands that, if you see a very large stingray and hurt or kill it, the fine is death or long imprisonment--in Laos? I think that would be far less intrusive and more effective than manhandling the stingray and her offspring into a state of shock. I mean, who decides what price is too low or too high to pay? No one asked me, and I care about Nature!

i agree wholeheartedly tamukha
very well stated

I hate all those people who "love" the outdoors and "love" to go fishing, and proudly display pictures of themselves holding all the creatures they've killed by hooks.

Oh, they are so proud of what they've done. Real HE-men.

Puke.

Remember the Marlo Perkns syndrome- Bag Em and Tag em.

sad things this human animal plays out on the rest.