Nasty little fish

Bob Beer (bbeer@u.washington.edu)
Wed, 10 Nov 1993 08:37:21 -0800 (PST)

> >Are you refering to the wee fish discovered in South America by that
> >poor English explorer who took a leek in a brook and this wee monster
> >nipped up the stream of his urine and lodged itself where no normal
> >man would want it to lodge :-( ?
>
> seos:
>
> Uh, sounds similar. While your anecdote sounds a little unlikely, the
> fish I was talking about has the unpleasant habit of looking for
> places to hide or bed down or lay eggs.

I think the name of the fish is "picu," or something like that. From
what I have read, it does sometime follow a warm stream of urine in the
water, and lodge itself, with dire results, but it can't actually go up a
stream of someone standing on land. That part is imagination.