Study of world-famous Stingray City finds human interaction drastically alters stingray behavior
Monday, March 18, 2013 - 18:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Stingrays living in one of the world's most famous and heavily visited ecotourism sites—Stingray City/Sandbar in the Cayman Islands—have profoundly changed their ways, raising questions about the impact of so-called "interactive ecotourism" on marine wildlife, reports a new study published March 18 in the journal PLOS ONE.