At 11:21 PM 1/5/03 -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 10:15 PM 1/5/03 -0500, Gary L. Nunn wrote:
Good God! This fish should be called the Satan Fish. Someone was telling
me about this fish and I didn't believe them so I looked it up.
Are there any in your neck of the jungle Alberto?
Gary
Candiru
The vampire fish of Brazil
When candirus parasitize humans, it is usually only
when they are skinny-dipping while urinating in the
water. The candiru tastes the urine stream and follows
it back to the human. --> It then swims up the anus and
lodges itself somewhere in the urinary tract with
its spines. <--
Thereby displaying a shocking disregard for basic human anatomy, as well
as a lousy sense of direction . . .
At 06:42 PM 1/6/03 +0000, William T Goodall wrote:
on 6/1/03 4:00 pm, Alberto Monteiro at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Gary L. Nunn wrote:
>>
>> Good God! This fish should be called the Satan Fish. Someone was telling
>> me about this fish and I didn't believe them so I looked it up.
>>
>> Are there any in your neck of the jungle Alberto?
>>
> No. BTW, I am not sure the Candiru exists, or if it is just an urban legend
>
Unless someone hoaxed Encyclopaedia Britannica it is real:
"(Vandellia cirrhosa), scaleless, parasitic catfish of the family
Trichomycteridae found in the Amazon River region. A translucent, eellike
fish about 2.5 cm (1 inch) long, the candiru feeds on blood and is commonly
found in the gill cavities of other fishes. It is sometimes also parasitic
to humans and has been known to enter the urethras of bathers and swimming
animals.
At least the EB knows one orifice from another . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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