Chinese Fun Fish

The small guy and the béluga

The four-year old boy named Yangyang swims with a beluga (a type of dolphin)in Qingdao Polar Region Ocean World in east China's Shandong province, 2007 Ph. China photopress.

The beluga kiss









Weird giant catfish


Spring 2007 an enormous fish is caught in Huadu's Furong Reservoir, South of China. The rumour quickly spreds on the web talking about a man-eating catfish ... It says that a human body was found inside the fish. The killer catfish was 3 meters long and the head alone was 1 meter wide.




Supposedly a few humans died every year in this reservoir under mysterious circumstances but no proff could link this with this big fish. Actually, specialist of the marine world identified the giant catfish to be a young whale shark !



A slice of chinese catfish ?

The only remaining mystery is to know how this shark, on the point of being extinct and of no danger to man (they are exclusively herbivores and they have not the teeth or other possibilities to attack other animals or humans) came from the sea to the reservoir ?






The chinese octopus sunbath

The dried spectre is a very appreciated Chinese delicacy.

Not fresh fish

Dead fishes from a fish farm after the passage of an heat wave in the South of China July 2006.

Miraculous fishing

A chinese fish farmer with some of his catfish bred on the outskirts of Hangzhou. Fish farmers are said to have turned to illegal veterinary drugs to keep fish alive in contaminated ponds. Source: D. Barboza. NYT, January 18, 2008

Giants Outside China

Although it is a little out off topic with China, here is (in comparison with Chinese giants), a few other famous and very tall persons around the world :




Leonid Stadnyk :

Leonid Stadnyk, born in 1971 in Podoliantsy Ukraine, appears in the Guinness Book of Records 2008 as the probable tallest living man in the world with a height of 2.57 m. Leonid began to grow dramatically in the age of 14 after a brain surgery, which would have stimulated the production of a growth hormone. He lives with his mother in his native village in Ukraine.

Leonid Stadnyck has stop growing since 2005. It is also said that he has the longuest legs and the largest hands of all.

Although this is not yet confirmed (he refuses to have his height measured by the Guiness book), otherwise he would replace Bao Xishun, a native of Inner Mongolia, which measures 2.36 meters and hold the Guinness record so far. (Wiki)

Robert Pershing Wadlow

Robert Pershing Wadlow (born on 22 February 1918 in Alton, Illinois, died on 15 July 1940) is an American who holds the official record of the tallest man ever. Wadlow reached the height of 2.72 m for a weight of 222 kg before his death at the age of 22.

His large size was attributed to a tumor in the pituitary gland. He was still growing when he died as a result of an infection caused by a brace poorly positioned. (Wiki)

Fedor Machnov

Fedor Machnov (1881-1905), a Russian in the time of the Tsars, 2.38 meters (himself claimed to be 2.88 m).








Fedor Machnov and his wonder boots