When staff went to the scene, there was nobody there. Mr Melhuish said the baby freshwater stingrays were loaned to the aquarium by Bristol Zoo and were likely to be returned when they are grown.
He said: "We're not sure how exaggerated her story might have been, we'd never seen it happen before, but it was certainly a bit of a shock to hear that someone could possibly have been trying to steal one of our baby stingrays.
"A lot of people see them in their small size and think they would be ideal as pets. So perhaps somebody may have wanted it as a pet, I'm not sure, but it would have been a bit of a surprise when it ended up growing to two metres."
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I went to Bray aquarium in Ireland recently.. The baby stingrays would line up on the bottom of the tank then charge at the walls, slide up the side of the tank and get most of their body out of the water. Their noses would be well over the side of the tank. You would need to steal one of them, just have a pocket open.
Stories of this sort are like a barb through my heart.
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