Friday 24 May 2013

perposterous pacu




Today i am going to talk about the pacu. a pacu is a huge vegetarian and eats seaweed and other freshwater plants.the pacu is also related to the piranha. the pacu can grow up to 3 feet and weight 55 pounds. the pacu lives in south America and Papua new Guinea.but it also lives a few places were it doesn't belong. the main place the pacu now lives is the african rivers. this fish was actually introduced to the place` as a way to give africans a bigger supply of food. but it went entirley wrong. first the pacu ate every plant it could there.because of this the animals houses and dens were destroyed and had no place to live. then the pacu had run out of foodand had to find another source of food to eat. MEAT. the pacu actually started to eat humans. the pacus teeth is like humans teeth so they can grip a persons leg or arm and easily drag them under water. so just because a big fish was moved to another continent, it ruined the whole enviroment there. as you see you should never bring or introduce a new animal. pacus and snakheads are two examples of why you should never do this. thank younfor reading. please leave comments suggestions and please spread the word to other people. I hope you liked it and tomorrow I am doing the chinchilla. I hope you learned allot. :)

2 comments:

  1. I just finished watching River Monsters and saw this episode. It was very interesting and so is your article!

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  2. Oh my, what a fearsome fish!

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