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Horror story: Candiru: the Toothpick Fish - Weird Nature - BBC animals
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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2009
The Candiru fish, or Toothpick fish, is a natural parasite commonly found living inside Amazonian Catfish. Watch this short video from BBC wildlife show 'Weird Nature' to learn how this small fish has become a horror story in its own right when introduced to humans!
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smokexsmoke99 1 month ago
What a gay fish!
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JohnAtDawn 3 weeks ago
Note to self: When in the Amazon-
You know what? Note to self: Just NEVER go to the Amazon.
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harassedsandwich 14 hours ago
its only in the amazon though
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TheDaniel7310 3 days ago
This Is why I don't swim in lakes
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Mygodcanbeatupyergod 5 days ago
No kidding. EVERYTHING in the amazon will kill you.
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mwhite4324 6 days ago
Bullshit, check this out: "It was also once thought that the fish was attracted to urine, as the candiru's primary prey emits urea from its gills, but this was later discredited in formal experimentation. Indeed, the fish appears not to have any response to any chemical attractants, and primarily hunts by visual tracking"
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curlygirly729 1 week ago
Weird that the scent of urine attracts the fish
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BoreyC 1 week ago
Even the story of what this fish allegedly does makes about 20.147 men cry per day. I am one of those men.
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Bob Jone 1 week ago
there has only been one documented case of this happening, and even that is very suspicious. Read up on this stuff before making conclusions.
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TheSuperlativeMind 1 week ago
i felt the bite
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zeroskillz90 1 week ago
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
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nj4ck 1 week ago
maybe he wanted to say that the catfish is communist.... I mean, it does look a little like Stalin.
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