Rare fish with "human" teeth caught in the US (3 photos)

A young fisherman from Oklahoma caught a rare fish with "human teeth", similar to a piranha. This is a brown pacu - invasive The species entered the United States from South America.





The brown pacu is a genus of fish in the Serrasalmidae family. close relatives of piranhas live in South America, and freshwater US water bodies when people keep them as pets, but released into nearby ponds and rivers.



Apparently, this happened with the instance from Oklahoma. A child pulled a fish with a gray-orange color from a nearby pond. scales and a wide-open mouth, exposing a row of teeth similar to human. The trophy was shown to employees of the Department of Wildlife Conservation nature, which confirmed the unusual catch. Kind of pacu caught a boy named Charlie is still unknown.



Representatives of the genus can grow up to 1 m in length and weigh 40 kg. Despite their resemblance to piranhas, pacu are harmless to person. Their human-like teeth most likely became the result of a varied omnivorous diet including small fish, crustaceans with a hard shell, as well as freshwater fruits and nuts plants.