The saga of Charlotte the Stingray has come to a tragic finish … because the famed fish has died.
The Aquarium and Shark Lab in Hendersonville, North Carolina shared the heartbreaking replace … Charlotte handed away Sunday amid remedy for an sickness.
After thanking followers for his or her love and help throughout Charlotte’s unconventional journey, her caretakers famous the aquarium will stay briefly closed … however the different fish will nonetheless be sorted throughout this time.
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Charlotte grew to become an Web sensation in February, after the aquarium introduced her stunning being pregnant … she had not shared a tank with a male stingray in 8 years. There have been loads of theories on Charlotte’s mysterious being pregnant … the preferred being parthenogenesis — a sort of asexual replica. Some scoffed, arguing one other sea creature impregnated her.
It did not take lengthy for Charlotte’s state of affairs to make its approach on to “Jimmy Kimmel Reside,” in addition to “Saturday Evening Reside” — the place Ego Nwodim portrayed the viral stingray on ‘Weekend Replace.’
Nevertheless, issues took a tragic flip by the spring.
On the finish of Might, when Charlotte nonetheless hadn’t given start, aquarium proprietor Brenda Ramer issued an ominous replace … Charlotte was by no means pregnant, relatively was coping with a reproductive illness, referred to as diapause.
Brenda additionally hit again at these accusing the aquarium of propagating a being pregnant hoax, insisting they by no means fabricated particulars in Charlotte’s journey.
Charlotte was estimated to be someplace between 12 and 14 years outdated … with the common stingray residing round a decade.
RIP
