This is a nut eating fish that has been reported to attack humans and eat their testicles. That is NOT a redundant statement in this case.
This is a nut eating fish that has been reported to attack humans and eat their testicles. That is NOT a redundant statement in this case.
No surprise that that Jeremy Wade is after it.
Love that show.
Well, I am never swimming again.
pinchvalve wrote: Well, I am never swimming again.
Nah, you just have to wear a cup.
In fact, wear a cup with fake testicles and a hook and you could fish for these berkeleyers.
Go fishing with truck nutz? 
There's a creepy little fish in Peru that will swim into your pee-pee hole and lodge itself there with hooks. Not kidding. It's called the Candiru.
In reply to Lesley:
I've heard of it. Its true.
I went fishing for Piranha in Peru and caught a Pacu instead. I did not know at the time that it was a ball eater. (Thankfully!)
Huh. My problem would be that after the attack the damn thing would still be hungry. Hungry fish = angry fish.
Lesley wrote: There's a creepy little fish in Peru that will swim into your pee-pee hole and lodge itself there with hooks. Not kidding. It's called the Candiru.
Myth.
I have a family vacation in Indiana on crooked lake. Hoping these things haven't spread out of Illinois.
Nope, not a myth. I actually wrote to a biologist who'd spent time in Peru to confirm, and he assured me that it was indeed true.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/92428/candiru
In reply to Lesley:
My fish may not give me nightmares, but yours will.
This thread makes me want to eat some fish just to get even!
Lesley wrote: Nope, not a myth. I actually wrote to a biologist who'd spent time in Peru to confirm, and he assured me that it was indeed true. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/92428/candiru
very real. http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/river-monsters/videos/fish-swims-up-urine-stream.htm
Oh great, first our governors, now our fish. 
I grew up on the beach. When I first moved inland, I thought I was a badass because I'd seen sharks/barracuda, etc.
Didn't take me long to learn that there are more dangerous things living in fresh water than in the salt.
Damn, nature..you scary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otyTzf4hJJs&feature=related
Lesley wrote: Nope, not a myth. I actually wrote to a biologist who'd spent time in Peru to confirm, and he assured me that it was indeed true. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/92428/candiru
One reported case, highly controversial.
Also, I didn't even know Encyclopedia Britannica was still around!
Encyclopaedia Britannica was the internet before there was an internet!
petegossett wrote: Oh great, first our governors, now our fish.
You know it!
With teeth like that, I wouldn't be overly worried. Those are the wrong design for flesh eating and tearing.
Reading up on the fish, sounds like it's quite tasty.
foxtrapper wrote: With teeth like that, I wouldn't be overly worried. Those are the wrong design for flesh eating and tearing. Reading up on the fish, sounds like it's quite tasty.
It's a FISH.
ON MY TESTES.
I've had worse on mine.
TMI.
foxtrapper wrote: I've had worse on mine.
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