Germaine Greer cheers<\/a> as Australia mourns. I somewhat side with Ms Geer, I never liked Steve Irwin’s “in your maw” style of animal presentation. <\/p>\n

But that is one sorry way to go.<\/p>\n

I’m no expert on stingrays, but I did witness all manner of provocation while diving at “Stingray City” with 200++ other people on a sand barge off the Cayman Islands. I suspect the ‘rays there were tamed to being fed and handled and even stepped on by chubby tourists, as opposed to out in the open Great Barrier Reef. Plus it sounds like the stingray’s hit was a fluke<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Germaine Greer cheers as Australia mourns. I somewhat side with Ms Geer, I never liked Steve Irwin’s “in your maw” style of animal presentation. But that is one sorry way to go. I’m no expert on stingrays, but I did witness all manner of provocation while diving at “Stingray City” with 200++ other people on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WjY-hx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadrobot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}