Africa’s fiercest freshwater fish
by Dave Gibson
Tigerfish are the fiercest, most sought-after, and widespread freshwater game fish in Africa. Armed with interlocking razor-sharp teeth, when a tooth is lost another takes its place like a shark’s. Muscular and streamlined, they hunt in large schools when young and groups of 4 to 5 when they are bigger. Sometimes ambushing goslings and swimming lizards, a tigerfish has been filmed snatching a swallow in mid-flight. Tigerfish in the Lower Zambezi River of Zambia can grow to be up to twenty-five pounds. It’s unclear whether they were named after a tiger because of their orange tails, black stripes, sharp teeth, or voracious tendencies.
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