Fish with teeth?

[roka64]

Did anyone see this?

http://www.local6.com/news/9542967/detail.html

 

[rich311k]

Another irresponsilbe hobbyist. Cool looking fish though.

 

[imrandome1]

errrrm different lol

 

[Blazeherd2306]

I'm 99.9% sure that it's a pacu. Those teeth are made for munching on fruit/nuts and that is what wild pacus eat.

 

[JustOneMore20]

Another irresponsilbe hobbyist

Exactly what I thought. And I saw the video of it on CNN and I think they say its a Pacu, Blaze...so you are right!

 

[ReefRaff]

I don't mean to sound nieve, but how does a man fishing on a lake make him an irresponsible hobbyist? sound to me that the tv station offering a 100 dollers would be more so. everybody and his brother will be out trying to collect.

edit: unless you are refering to someone releasing it into the wild?

 

[rich311k]

edit: unless you are refering to someone releasing it into the wild?

That is what I meant not the fisherman.

 

[JustOneMore20]

unless you are refering to someone releasing it into the wild?

Also what I meant.

 

[shawmutt]

A search for what the fish may be suggested that it may be a pacu, which is found in South America.

That's what I thought when seeing the picture, although I'll never look at pacu teeth the same way again

 

[Toirtis]

Not the first, by far....and yes, that is a pacu...mature pacu look like they swallow granpa's dentures...remember, those teeth can crack nut shells with ease.

http://www.junglephotos.com/amazon/amanimals/amfishes/pacuteeth.jpg

http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/10d-12/tambaqui-skull.jpg

Now imagine what the teeth and jaws on a 43", 66lb mature black pacu could do.

 

[shawmutt]

First link doesn't work.

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[Toirtis]

First link doesn't work.

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You don't have permission to access /amazon/amanimals/amfishes/pacuteeth.jpg on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Weird...works just fine for me....try this:
http://www.junglephotos.com/amazon/amanimals/amfishes/pacu.shtml#165172

 

[An t-iasg]

The second link worked for me. What a picture! 8O

 

[Jchillin]

Not the first, by far....and yes, that is a pacu...mature pacu look like they swallow granpa's dentures...

Reminds me of the Abbott and Costello movie..."French Foreign Legion". There's a scene where they are at an oasis, an older Arabian man dropped his dentures into the pond and a fish wound up with them, totally befuddlling Costello.