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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Puffer fish underwent an emergency dental procedure after a fight with a stingray


Crazy as it sounds, I'm not making this up. It happened in England. Here is the full story. It sounds like the fight busted off part of a tooth, which in and of itself would have been ok, except that puffer fish are like rats in that they need to constantly be gnawing to keep their teeth worn down. After the fight the lazy puffer fish did all his gnawing on the side with the broken tooth, allowing his other tooth to grow to the point that it started damaging his lip.

Crazy.

After the procedure the fish was relocated to Germany - I'd like to think that it was part of some sort of fish witness protection program to keep him safe from the sting rays.

2 comments:

Stephanie said...

Fish aren't suppose to have teeth, but if they do...then I am glad there are people to protect them

Ashley said...

Wow, wasn't there some kid with a clef palette somewhere who needed this surgery a little more urgently?