Schoolboy helps a stingray give birth to 12 babies

Miller Wilson, 12, from Queensland came across the female stingray lying on the bank of a mangrove creek and posted his amazing encounter on YouTube.

'You OK?,' he asked the stingray as he stroked it. 'This one is really fat, I don't know if she's either pregnant and she's come up here to have babies or whether she's just beached herself... we'll have to see.' 

The fearless boy picked her up out of the shallow water and noticed a mini barb poking out of the creature. 

'I'll show you the underbelly they look pretty funny... baby!,' he exclaimed.

'Ok so this one's actually giving birth as we speak and this is just baby stingrays coming out here, oh my gosh! I'll pull these out.' 

Miller placed the large female stingray against his chest and began gently pulling at the first tail.

'Look at that aren't they just adorable? Wow look at how cute that is!,' he enthused. 

He tugged for a few seconds until the babies were completely visible and, one by one, a large litter of the very cute sea creatures emerged.  

The baby stingrays were placed in the water and were soon joined by their brothers and sisters.

'Look how many we have got so far,' Miller gushed.

'Ok so we have got six babies, seven babies, eight babies, they just keep coming.'

The adorable, and translucent litter of baby stingrays stayed close to their mother after birth, assisted by Miller who lined them up along the shore. 

The video also shows the boy cheering as he lifts a small male stingray from the shallows of a creek.

He takes the stingray to the beach to show his audience the long, sharp, poisonous barb.

'Look at the size of that,' he said.

The camera then focuses on the stingray's barb which is used to defend it from its few natural predators such as seals and sharks. 

'Probably wouldn't have even been trying to catch him if I knew he had this big of a barb.' 

(dailystar.co.uk)