There is a big and stupid fish in the world, living in the Amazon basin of South America, which has been breeding for hundreds of millions of years, and has a long history than many creatures on Earth! Generally speaking, in the biological world of survival of the fittest, fish that can live for so long must have innate advantages and are relatively smart, but this big fish is stupid, and fishermen can easily catch it.
This fish is called arapaima, known as a kind of "living fossil" fish, because of the huge size, many creatures in the water are not its opponents, so the arapaima in the water, live very leisurely, swim every day on the water, hungry to eat small fish and shrimp in the water!
Arapaima not only has a long history and a large shape, but its body color is beautiful and it is a very valuable ornamental fish. At the same time, arapaima is not only delicious meat, rich in nutrients, so there are many fishermen who specialize in catching this fish.
Don't look at the huge size of the arapaima, clumsy to move, it is this kind of stupid fish, but has a restless heart. As long as there is wind and grass on the surface of the water, you must go up and have a look. Its tail fin is so powerful that it can overturn a fishing boat with a swung and injure an adult man. How did fishermen catch such a powerful fish?
The fishermen take advantage of the characteristics of arapaima, bulky and slow to move, and when they surface, they knock it on the head with a stick and knock it unconscious! In this way, the fishermen can move the fish to the fishing boat, bring it back to be slaughtered, sold, and earned!
Arapaima has few natural enemies in the water, so how can it be so intelligent that fishermen can catch it easily? I heard that the arapaima that was knocked away is not the stupidest, there are even more stupid!
Some arapaima are stupid enough to send themselves to the door, take the initiative to jump on the fishermen's boat, and do not know whether they are greedy for freshness, want to play on the fishing boat, or really stupid enough to send to the door, let people knock themselves, in short, for the big fish sent to the door, the fishermen want to do it!
The Solimontis River in Brazil is one of the main tributaries of the Amazon River and one of the most important producers of arapaima, and many fishermen come here every year to catch arapaima.
Fishermen row small boats through the river, and there are arapaima on board, and a tonguefish occupies almost a small fishing boat. They catch this fish very easily, and each person can catch thirty or forty a day.
Because of overfishing, and because this fish saw the fishing boat, did not know how to escape, but took the initiative to jump up, stupid to the point of extinction, the local government had to legislate protection, and now it has become an IUCN Red List list of endangered species.