Arapaima: Mother of All Fish
Fish of the Week!
English - September 25, 2023 04:00 - 34 minutes - 1 MB - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsWilderness Sports Science Nature fish fishing culture fisheries fisheries management conservation science indigenous rivers coasts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Get to know the largest freshwater scaled fish with a face that looks like a topographical map of Mars: the Arapaima. Wait, there's more: they excrete a milk-like substance from their head! An ichthyologist who works at the Field Museum in conservation science, Dr. Lesley de Souza, takes us to the Amazon and Essequibo basins in South America where she's learned from Indigenous communities while exploring the habits of this astronomical, air-breathing fish (known by some as "mother of all fish").