PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium has recently become home to two new baby stingrays in the past few weeks.
A baby male and a female bigtooth river stingray received their first exam Tuesday at the zoo.
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At birth, the pups are barely four inches wide and weigh just a quarter of a pound. Full grown bigtooth river stingrays measure 17 inches across.
"We try to breed them so we don't have to pluck more from the wild," said Rich Terrell, aquariumist at the Pittsburgh Zoo. "We're learning more about their biology."
Within four months, the pups will nearly double in size and be introduced to solid food such as chopped seafood. In the meantime, both will stay behind the scenes until they grow and can swim with the adults.
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