Listen: Pacu, the Aggressive Immigrant Fish

Through interviews, anecdotes and research, Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian bring alive the rich breadth of human imagination and knowledge

Samanth Subramanian

Through interviews, anecdotes and research, Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian bring alive the rich breadth of human imagination and knowledge

listen pacu the aggressive immigrant fish

A black pacu. Credit: Carnat Joel/Flickr

A fish with human-like teeth. A close cousin of the piranha. Are Indian waters being invaded by this predatory foreign fish? Are these aquatic immigrants destructive and capable of wrecking their ecological surroundings? Could they destroy the other fish around them? Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian investigate invasive species of fish in this fascinating new episode of The Intersection.

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This is the latest episode of The Intersection, a fortnightly podcast on Audiomatic. For more such podcasts visit audiomatic.in.

Featured image: A black pacu. Credit: Carnat Joel/Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

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