----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn! Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 7:13 PM Subject: Re: Nightmare fish in Brazil.....
> 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 . . . > I think the other site was somehow confused and got the fish mixed up with the California Gerbil. xponent Felching Maru rob ________________________________ You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
