Arapaima - Big Fish in Brazil


	Arapaima - Big Fish in Brazil

ActiveDiving

7-2-2008 7:03 AM

82 views

tags:

fish, scuba diving, diving, water, brazil, animal, life

ActiveDiving says:

We dont offer swimming with these big fish but they don´t get much larger than whale sharks in Mozambique! Dive in HERE . . .http://www.activediving.co.uk/

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

View the Top Clips from July 2, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#0099ff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3005dcd7-0054-4b4a-9637-76042ab3c640/A7BF5388-E187-4AE1-AC7A-97B87B7F3A75/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html" href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html" style="font-size: 11px;">animals.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html"><H1>Arapaima <DIV class="latin-name"><EM>Arapaima gigas</EM> </DIV></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html"><DIV class="legend">
<IMG width="20" height="15" border="0" src="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Global/ApplicationAssets/img/art-icon-locator-map-key.gif" alt=" " />Arapaima range						</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/animals.nationalgeographic.com/img/1D88581C-AE22-4B7C-9A0B-1ACC4FB01D7B" alt="Image: Arapaima range" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/animals.nationalgeographic.com/img/7B2DE4A6-F501-441F-A286-16BC6FFD3E26" alt="Photo: Arapaima fish and diver" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html"><DIV id="fact-text">
<DIV class="list-item">Type: Fish</DIV>
<DIV class="list-item">Diet: Carnivore </DIV>
<DIV class="list-item">Average lifespan in captivity: 15 to 20 years</DIV>
<DIV class="list-item">Size: Up to 9 ft (2.75 m) </DIV>
<DIV class="list-item">Weight: 440 lbs (200 kg)</DIV>
<DIV class="fastfact">Did you know? The arapaima has a "bony" tongue fitted with a set of teeth, which some indigenous people use as a scraping tool. </DIV>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html"><H2>Fast Facts</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html"><P>Also known as the paiche or the pirarucu, the arapaima is an air-breathing fish that plies the rain forest rivers of South America's Amazon Basin and nearby lakes and swamps. One of the world's largest freshwater fish, these giants can reach 9 feet (2.75 meters) long and weigh up to 440 pounds (200 kilograms). They have a wide, scaly, gray body and a tapered head.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html"><P>Though arapaimas can stay underwater for 10 to 20 minutes, they tend to remain near the water's surface, where they hunt and emerge often to breathe with a distinctive coughing noise. They survive mainly on fish but are known to occasionally grab birds close to the water's surface.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/arapaima.html"><H2>Arapaima Profile</H2></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A7BF5388-E187-4AE1-AC7A-97B87B7F3A75/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>