Arapaima

Also known as the parch or the priapic, the Arapaho is an air-gulp of air fish that plies the rain forest rivers of South America's Amazon Basin and close at hand lakes and swamps. One of the world's largest freshwater fish, these giant can reach 9 feet (2.75 meters) stretched and weigh up to 440 pounds (200 kilograms). They encompass a wide, scaly, gray dead body and a pointed head.
Though Arapahos can stay submerged for 10 to 20 minutes, they tend to stay behind near the water's surface, where they hunt and materialize often to breathe with a distinguishing coughing noise. They live to tell the tale mainly on fish but are known to sporadically grab birds close to the water's facade
The Arapaho's immediacy to the water's facade make it vulnerable to human being predators, who can easily object them with harpoons. Some aboriginal communities munch through the Arapaho's meat and dialect and amass its large scales, which are twisted into ornaments and other matter
The Amazon's recurring floods have develop into part of the Arapaho's reproductive sequence Young begin to produce as rising water level provide them with inundation environment in which to increase. Adult males play an extraordinary reproductive role by incubate tens of thousands of eggs in their mouth, guarding them uncompromisingly and moving them when obligatory.
While this giant fish's habitat is moderately unmolested, overfishing has become a solemn problem, and some South American powers that be have attempt to enact