# Carnivorous trees!  Tree living fish!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorous-trees-tree-living-fish/424625>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 30, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorous-trees-tree-living-fish/424625 "2007-10-30T20:14:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorous-trees-tree-living-fish/424625/1 "2007-10-30T20:14:14Z")

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Howdy.

Ever heard of carnivorous trees? ahem, well, neither have I.

[http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20071023040252&Page=K&Headline=‘Cow-eating’+trees+of+Padrame&Title=Southern+News+-+Karnataka&Topic=0](http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20071023040252&Page=K&Headline='Cow-eating'+trees+of+Padrame&Title=Southern+News+-+Karnataka&Topic=0)

Heh.

What’s next? Tree living fish? Well yes…

> **[The fish that can survive for months in a tree](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-488193/The-fish-survive-months-tree.html)**
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> It's one of the golden rules of the natural world birds live in trees, fish live in water. The trouble is, no one bothered to tell the mangrove killifish

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**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorous-trees-tree-living-fish/424625/2 "2007-10-30T23:43:30Z")

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I am cool with the fish. I will need a video of the tree, though.