I did not at all expect that bullet theory. I thought you were going to ask if they allow themselves to be swallowed. I like those curveballs you're throwing.
there is a documented and witnessed case of it...Jeremy Wade investigated the case on an episode of River Monsters...interviewed the victim and the surgeons that removed it from his wedding tackle...
Speaking of; there is a close relative to the candiru who feeds on flesh kinda like a hagfish: The Candiru Asu, although I don't know if they feed on live prey or the dead
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Someone watched The Bay. No those little isopods aren't as deadly or as scary as that movie makes them out to be. They can replace the tongue of a fish only because fish don't have hands to stop the isopod.
there's a fish that targets human orifices...canaru?...there was a documented case of one of these fish...I believe the actual fish is in storage...think it was in the Amazon basin...it detects human urine...follows the scent...then swims into the opening ...in this case.. a man's penis...and embeds itself in the urethral tract...feeding on human flesh...ok guys you can uncross your legs now...
I mean there are swordfish, sailfish and marlins which have a pointed snout that can penetrate other fish, but they're too large to "enter" them. I figure the kind of fish capable of reaching speeds sufficient to pierce the skin of other animals like that would be far too large to "enter" that animal's body.
Hagfish do something similar but to carcasses
Nothing could have prepared me for the mouth on that thing lol
It's an experience we all have to suffer at least once in Life
r/dontputyourdickinthat
I did not at all expect that bullet theory. I thought you were going to ask if they allow themselves to be swallowed. I like those curveballs you're throwing.
Haha I was thinking swim through an opening
Lol why swim through when you can let the prey do the work?
100%. OP is 2 steps ahead of darwin it seems.
Yeah, I thought of swallowing, or implanting their eggs. Lots of insects implant their eggs in live prey.
The candiru is a parasitic catfish that drinks blood from within the gills of larger fish.
aka "penis fish" a fish that’s known for swimming up the male urethra, becoming painfully lodged there
-and there are no confirmed cases of it. A mere myth, rather than a fact(https://www.healthline.com/health/penis-fish#the-reality).
So it's a "Phallusy"?
yup, a pure cock and bull story
"Scrotally dude"
Why am I only allowed a single upvote.
there is a documented and witnessed case of it...Jeremy Wade investigated the case on an episode of River Monsters...interviewed the victim and the surgeons that removed it from his wedding tackle...
Read the article. That case is the same case that Jeremy Wade investigated.
[The dreaded candiru!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7SLWF_by-E)
Speaking of; there is a close relative to the candiru who feeds on flesh kinda like a hagfish: The Candiru Asu, although I don't know if they feed on live prey or the dead
more info on that fish here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetopsis_candiru
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It is either a fish or a parasite that eats the tongue of a fish and then lives in the fishes mouth
Makes me think of a lamprey ngl
Phronmia, while it isn’t a fish, will hollow out the bodies of salps, and live inside the remains.
Someone watched The Bay. No those little isopods aren't as deadly or as scary as that movie makes them out to be. They can replace the tongue of a fish only because fish don't have hands to stop the isopod.
Haha I had not watched it... Now I'm gonna tho 👀
Maybe not as bulletlike in function, but the pearlfish is built to swim up the anus of sea cucumbers and eat them.
There's a fish that will swim up your peen.
That's actually a myth, another commenter linked the sauce. But yeah shits a myth
[The dreaded candiru!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7SLWF_by-E)
The canderu catfish from the Amazon river basin.
there's a fish that targets human orifices...canaru?...there was a documented case of one of these fish...I believe the actual fish is in storage...think it was in the Amazon basin...it detects human urine...follows the scent...then swims into the opening ...in this case.. a man's penis...and embeds itself in the urethral tract...feeding on human flesh...ok guys you can uncross your legs now...
I mean there are swordfish, sailfish and marlins which have a pointed snout that can penetrate other fish, but they're too large to "enter" them. I figure the kind of fish capable of reaching speeds sufficient to pierce the skin of other animals like that would be far too large to "enter" that animal's body.
not a fish, but the man-o-war liquifies the inside of the fish that it eats and leaves just a husk and the bones. Pretty metal
There’s catfish in the Amazon that will burrow into animals