Arowana facts: the dragon fish with silver scales | Animal Fact Files

On this episode of Animal Fact Files discover a bunch of fish who live in completely separate continents even though they don't swim in salt water... You can learn more on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/animalfactfiles Facebook - https://facebook.com/animalfactfiles/ --- We always do what we can to be as accurate as possible, but we're only human; if you catch a mistake please let us know and provide a link for verification! --- All images, videos and sound effects used herein are 1) public domain, 2) used under a Creative Commons license*, 3) used with the express permission of the copyright holder, or 4) used under the parameters of Fair Use law. Credits via Youtube: RAWWFishing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJDftBwCeXU Michael's Fish Room - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZJqv-Nob6I Fins & Tails - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTYAYY6fe0Y SINH VAT CANH - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5nA4dl3mVs Monster Fish66 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3WBL0uL0Yc aqua predator - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hISCXpEODls Blessings Aquarium - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy424C5sJUI Steven C. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9qUZN_CBkE Credits via Flickr: Mohd Fazlin Mohd Effendy Ooi - https://www.flickr.com/photos/phalinn/24394835803; https://www.flickr.com/photos/phalinn/24390858364 Bernard DUPONT - https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/6978501520 Cliff - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nostri-imago/3149758540 Aneo - https://www.flickr.com/photos/50668519@N00/13078654563 aini - https://www.flickr.com/photos/25947554@N07/3617096636 whologwhy - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hulagway/5100397121 Modh Rosdi Zainal Abidin - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrosdi/4315738911 Credits via Wiki Users: Lerdsuwa - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow_Arowana.jpg Jarek Tuszynski - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baltimore_Aquarium_-_Silver_arowana_-_1.jpg Fir0002 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scleropages_Melbourne_Aquarium.jpg Sivahari - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fish3.jpg Ranjithsiji - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Tail_Golden_Arowana.JPG Karelj - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scleropages_formosus_Prague_2012_1.jpg; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scleropages_formosus_Prague_2012_2.jpg Ginkgo100 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scleropages_jardinii_043.JPG; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scleropages-jardinii-01.jpg Marcel Burkard - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scleropages_formosus.jpg Viktor Kravtchenko - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scleropages_leichardti1.JPG Citron / CC-BY-SA-3.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:O_bicirrhosum.jpg Other attributions: jamesabdulrahman - https://freesound.org/people/jamesabdulrahman/sounds/241095 Zoo Knoxville - https://vimeo.com/261185796 OpenCage.info - http://opencage.info/pics.e/large_10933.asp; http://opencage.info/pics.e/large_18403.asp Websites used for research collection: https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=161888#null https://www.fishbase.se/summary/FamilySummary.php?ID=38 http://www.fishbase.org/identification/SpeciesList.php?class=Actinopterygii&order=Osteoglossiformes&famcode=38&subfamily=&genus=Scleropages&areacode=&c_code=&depth=&spines=&fins=&TL=&BD=&resultPage=1&sortby=species http://www.fishbase.org/identification/SpeciesList.php?genus=Osteoglossum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleropages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoglossum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_arowana https://books.google.com/books?id=cDsRfy0LmQgC&pg=PA60 https://books.google.com/books?id=K-1Ygw6XwFQC&pg=PA52 https://books.google.com/books?id=Gzc2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 https://books.google.com/books?id=j--XRbVl2DoC&pg=PA186 https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Osteoglossum_bicirrhosum/ https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/silver-arowana https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Py_Tang/publication/228992812_Genetic_variability_and_estimation_of_effective_population_sizes_of_the_natural_populations_of_green_arowana_Scleropages_formosus_in_Peninsular_Malaysia/links/545259860cf2bccc4908e192.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11016278.pdf#page=6 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aqc.937 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004484860300560X https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1976.tb03906.x https://web.archive.org/web/20120205000120/http://www.brh.co.jp/en/experience/journal/39/research_1.html *you can find information about all the different types of CC licenses here: https://creativecommons.org/ **changes were made to the original Transcript: alugha Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/AnimalFactFiles

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