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Out There: Tucanaré, the exploding fish

By Keith "Catfish" Sutton
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, December 30, 2002

Despite its brilliant colors, the 15-pound fish is invisible in the tea-colored water of Brazil's Rio Negro. Its flanks are gilded with lustrous, golden scales slashed with bars of ebony. The crimson fins along its belly glow hot, like iron on a blacksmith's forge. Such a thing seems insensible — a camouflage of vivid hues. But in a world illuminated by dancing rays of Amazon sunlight, the fish's metallic complexion is the perfect cloak. Minutes earlier, a red-bellied piranha was its bre ...

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