Lajamanu, a remote community in the Australian outback, near the Tanami Desert, recently experienced its fourth rain of fish in the last 50 years.
The dry town of Lajamanu sees very little normal rain, but somehow it has experienced no less than four “fish rains” in the last half-century — once in 49 years ago, another in 19 years ago, again in 13 years ago, and last Sunday. Although the nearest fish-containing body of water is many miles away, locals say that live fish started falling from the sky during a powerful storm, and they even have photos to back up those claims.
Such unusual natural phenomena have been reported in the past, but Michael Hammer, a curator(馆长) of fishes who has investigated such incidents in the past, claims that many times people just come out after the rain and see the fish everywhere. They don’t actually see it falling out of the sky, but prefer to believe it rained from the clouds. However, in the case of Lajamanu, there is plenty of reason to believe that the fish did rain down during a storm. There are no watering holes near the remote town, and the fish picked up from the streets were identified as spangled perch, common freshwater fish that are not supposed to be in Lajamanu.
“They are a relatively large fish and they’re not able to be drawn up out of the water and held up in the sky for very long,” ichthyologist(鱼类研究者) Jeff Johnson said. “But clearly that’s what has happened.” Another confusing thing about this most recent case of raining fish is that the people of Lajamanu insist that at least some of the fish were alive. Dr. Hammer admits that, as long as they were not lifted too high, it would not be impossible for fish to remain alive as they are carried by the storm, even over long distances.
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