Freshwater Stingray

Duluth, MN; May 8, 2012:  It had been nearly nine years since I'd visited the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, and it had changed a little bit in that time. While there was still the fantastic, enormous aquarium with all of the sturgeon and lake trout, they also had some animals from outside the Great Lakes region. This is a freshwater stingray from the Amazon. He was in a "petting pool" and seemed pretty friendly, to the point of wanting to crawl out of the pool when I came by.