Re: Fish in trees (Re: VMs: Worry - information loss intranscription - pictures ...)

[ajb <ajb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> 
>> >Fish are found in trees, you know. Those little fish,
>> >for instance, which have lungs and like to jump out
>> >of the mud and crawl up into mangrove trees.
>> >
>> >I don't know what they are called in English. In Zabana
>> >it's "pipilo".
>> 
>> FWIW, I think that the ones well known for doing this in Thailand are
>> called "mud skippers".
>
>       And what about the ones in Florida, USA, that climbed
>out on 
>land and bit people?  ;-)
>
>Dennis

There are fish in trees (or at least _a_ tree) here also: one of my cats
helps himself to quite large ones from the old fire pond and rushes up
my oak tree out of the way of the other cat, where he leaves the fish
for me to try and retrieve. Occasionally they actually survive....

But Jacques was talking of Periophthalmus sobrinus or the like.

http://gopher.ulb.ac.be/~dagillik/mangrove/fish.htm

and they do indeed climb right up the mangroves. My uncle recorded them
as high as seven feet.

Regards

Anthony


-- 

        Just because I'm paranoid it doesn't mean
              they're not out to get me...

        
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