15 December 2008

Fish burps

Courtesy of my friend Kelley, a really big fish:

For all those crazy guys who go 'noodling' for catfish and stick their arms down the fish's throat, this would be 'all the catfish you can eat' (or all the catfish that can eat you)... Each year, a few people were drowning or disappearing mysteriously in Huadu's Furong Reservoir. It was not until recently, when the son of a government official went swimming, in the reservoir and was drowned, that the secret was revealed. It is a three-meter-long man-eating catfish whose head alone is one meter wide. After cutting up the catfish, people were surprised to find the remains of another man inside. Swimming in the reservoir is now forbidden, because it is feared another similar man-eating catfish is still lurking in the waters
Rico says he didn't want to swim there, anyway... But he violated the cardinal rule of the internet: always, always, always check Snopes first:
The specimen is a whale shark and, as the other photographs in the series show, when it was cut open it didn't prove to have human remains inside, just some entrails that vaguely look like the bottom half of a human torso. Also, since the whale shark is a saltwater denizen, these photos were probably snapped at a location near a coastline.

1 comment:

Peripatetic Engineer said...

Whale sharks, while the biggest fish in the ocean, are filter feeders. Unlikely they would suck in a human.

 

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