Arowana's eating monkeys?

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penngomifan

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i was reading about this, is this true? can they real eat a freaking monkey? pretty crazy stuff, if so does anyone have videos of this?? it be pretty amazing thing to see........
 
DeLgAdO;1382502; said:
perhaps a small species of young monkey because of there smaller size and inexperience.

and we gotta be talking about one BIG arowana here! :WHOA:
I know theres a species of squirel monkeys, there small, but its just something i read, and i was thinking holy crap,
 
I read something about that as well. First it will have to be a small monkey, and a huge arownana. The monkey hangs off a branch of a tree near the shallow edge of the water and an arownana leaps out of the water and grabs the monkey and eats it. Nothing new about that.

just like I read and saw on TV how these giant monsters of the deeps rivers snatch things like ducks, giant fish, alligators, and even small children although it usually chokes and dies from them.
 
it is possible scientist believe that fish unlike mammals never stop growing but just slow down. So a big 5 foot wild arowana could probably knock a monkey off a try and eat it. I have seen a giant catfish at a lake eat three baby ducklings.
 
there's some monkey or ape species where the adults will fit in the palm of your hand.

so i'd say a larger aro can definately eat one
 
A big northern pike will eat ducklings, and during the floods in the amazon the tree tops are closer and monkeys are easier to get ive seen pictures of it and pictures of them eating birds...
 
There was an 8 foot long alligator gar in a nearby trailer park pond that ate ducks and cats and dogs. It was all over the news.

I have heard of arowanas taking down like some larger mammals, but not actually eating them, like baby deer sized, when they go to drink out of the water I guess.

I saw a video at Bestbuy on all their TVs of an arowana jumping at least 3-4 feet out of the water and snatching a bird out of a tree branch, I can't find the video though. If anyone has that please show me it.
 
I didnt think fish had good enough eyes to see well both under water and above water! So if I get some really big fish in a pond, and then encourage the neighbors noisy kids to go for a swim........what kind of liability am I lookin at here?
 
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