Showing posts with label fish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fish. Show all posts

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Fish that nets the fairer sex using hooks on its penis found in Mexico

A new species of freshwater fish that gets around efforts by the female to block 'low quality' mates using four hooks on its penis has been discovered in east-central Mexico.

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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Pacu, Testicle-Eating Fish Species, Caught In Lake Lou Yaeger In Illinois



... Responding to a report that a fisherman had reeled in a piranha on June 7, lake superintendent Jim Caldwell brought the fish to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, where it was identified as a pacu. Some reports say another pacu was seen a couple of weeks later.

Caldwell said he is still swimming in the lake nearly every day. Pacus primarily eat nuts, aquatic vegetation and snails, he told KDSK, and pose no real threat to humans.

Residents of Papua New Guinea may beg to differ. There, according to British fisherman Jeremy Wade, the pacu is known as the "ball cutter." In 2011, Wade said locals informed him that two fisherman had died from blood loss after something in the water had bitten off their testicles, according to the Metro. ...

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