Testicle-Eating Pacu Fish

Written by:
Hans Kruit, 6 November 2013

Fisherman Jim DePersia thought he found a piranha in the waters of Cedar Lake, Ill., but it was something almost as nutty: A testicle-eating fish called a pacu.

DePersia, 64, hooked the bizarre fish in the lake near his home. One look at its sharp teeth and immediately he thought he`d reeled in the fearsome Amazonian species. It was a big one, weighing nearly seven pounds and measuring about 20 inches in length.

“As I came up and looked at it, I thought I knew my fish and this is a huge monster,” he told CBS Chicago.

The freaky-looking fish was actually a pacu, a cousin of the piranha that has been known to mistake human testicles for tree nuts, a staple of its diet.

In 2011, two men in New Guinea reportedly died from blood loss after a pacu devoured their treasured family jewels, the Metro reported.

Pacus are tropical fish so it's likely that DePersia's catch was dumped in the lake by a collector.

The fish invasion is happening in Europe as well. A pacu was also found near Paris in September, and there was a sighting in Sweden in August.

source: Huffpost

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