{"id":3556,"date":"2010-05-06T00:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T18:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:52:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:52:12","slug":"zoologist-tracks-freshwater-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/05\/zoologist-tracks-freshwater-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"ZOOLOGIST TRACKS FRESHWATER MONSTERS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Kansas City Star<\/a> has published an article about zoologist, angler and TV host, Jeremy Wade, who has traveled the globe in search of huge, mysterious, freshwater monsters that make sharks seem as docile as dolphins.<\/p>\n

The host of Animal Planet\u2019s \u201cRiver Monsters,\u201d Wade trudges through inhospitable environments and plies his skill with heavy fishing equipment and a passion, he admits, that borders on obsession.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou start off interested in variety, and then it\u2019s always about bigger fish, bigger fish, and I became fairly obsessive I think in my late teens and early 20s… Then I just by chance came across an article about somebody who went to India fishing for a fish called a mahseer. And a couple years after that I found myself in India with not much money in my pocket and not much of an idea of what I was going to do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>What he was going to do was stalk that mahseer as though it were Moby Dick. He wrote some articles about that battle, which led to working as a part-time journalist and a copywriter. A zoology graduate, he also taught biology for a while.<\/p>\n

For 15 years he would trek to some exotic location, try to snag some scaly Sasquatch for three months and return to erratic day jobs. His latest conquests include the Indian goonch, the colossal arapaima (commonly said to be the biggest freshwater fish in the world) and a gargantuan Congolese relative of the piranha known as the Goliath tigerfish.<\/p>\n

“It is, for all intents and purposes, a giant piranha. It\u2019s and it\u2019s got the same dentition, where you\u2019ve got the triangular teeth, but the whole animal is scaled up. People get very excited about piranhas, but this is huge.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wade also expressed why he was attracted to freshwater fauna such as LAKE MONSTERS<\/a> and\u00a0 AQUATIC ENIGMAS<\/a> as opposed to SEA MONSTERS<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s less mystery in the sea than there is in fresh water. If you look at television, there\u2019s lots of documentaries on whales, on coral reefs, the deep oceanic trenches. There\u2019s loads of stuff. But as soon as you look for anything about fresh water, the information is very sketchy… I think it\u2019s for a very simple reason. Sea water is clear, and you can put the camera in sea water and you can see stuff, whereas fresh water is often zero visibility… Fishing is one area of life where you\u2019ve still got real, where you can\u2019t just go to a textbook or the Internet or whatever. You just have to go and find out for yourself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

River Monsters<\/a> airs on Animal Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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