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Pacu, as this fish is incorrectly called in place of the violent spawn of hellfire that it is, happens to be a native of South American freshwaters. Pacu is a relative of the Piranha, but mostly it is an omnivore with vegetative tendencies and prefer nuts and fruits; except for when they attack and kill other fish, or chomp on human nuts.
This reminds me of the old joke. What did one fish in a tank say to the other? How do we drive this thing? Well that might exactly be what fish in the ‘Fish on Wheels’ might be talking about. When the fish in this tank moves, a top mounted webcam captures its movement and …
Plenty of documentation exists for birds hunting for fish. It’s not even news. But fish jumping out of water to hunt birds? Well, that’s almost a fabled tale and one not so readily believed. Now we have a first confirmed record of a fish hunting for birds. The video above shows an African Tigerfish catching hold of a swallow in flight.
Fish are colorful, bright creatures. Like almost all beings in nature, the colors of fish aren’t really markers of their anatomy. Dyed fish in the works of Professor Adam Summers have dyes running around bodies of the marine animals, clearly marking several anatomical structures.
Fish can clean-up and pose for photographs pretty nice, as we get to see in these photographs by Visarute Angkatavanich. The photographer takes his camera to Siamese Fighting Fish (betta) and lets the colorful fish pose and be photographed. Not quite the docile type, the fish are known to be pretty aggressive. The portraits make it look like the fish are floating in air, which would be quite a scary thing to imagine for fish this aggressive. Well, that’s perhaps how they got the idea of Sharknado.
A lamp that is a sort of deja vu for the design of Frank Gehry, the fish lamp takes its form from a design the 80+ year old architect created 25 years ago. The first fish lamp was created some 25 years ago when the designer saw shards of colorful plastics from ColorCore laminate. Revisiting the old design, the architect has created a new series of fish lamps, built again by using the ColorCore from Formica.
On the surface of it, the portable fishbowl handbag idea is quite exceptional. We love our fish, why not carry them along? Designer Cassandra Verity Green crafted a handbag that makes the fishbowl portable, and make it easy for you to carry the fish along. That’s a pretty sight. Well, but then those of us who do keep fish realize that this thing is something of a death trap for them. Tiny space, getting thrown around as you walk, constant changes, it is plain cruel. Pretty as it may be, something like this is guaranteed to significantly reduce the life of your fish; they’ll last a few days if they’re lucky.
Keeping a good eye on fish might show they have a complex society much like our own, though for some reason they refuse to let out the secret and pretend to be dumb. You just have to know where to look to get to the truth. Paris based photographer Anne-Catherine Becker-Echivard apparently was well aware of that concept, and managed to capture fish in their complex setting.
If this fish knew it was inside a giant whale, it would freak out. Well, probably not. Fish don’t give a fuck as long as they have good, clean water. Giona Aquarium by designer Alessandra Baldereschi takes its looks from a giant whale. To be produced by Skitsch, the hand blown whale looks absolutely cool, …
Japanese photographer Hiroshi Iwasaki took a break from his usual photography of accessories and watches, and captured fish in his camera instead. The photographs simply focus on the movements of fish, and show them off in a way that is very interesting to those of us who keep fish. Iwasaki’s brilliance and style of accessory photography also shines in these images.