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Siamese Fighting Fish
Betta splendens
Everything eye-catching about the Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens) is an artefact of human selection. The wild fish of central Thailand's rice paddies and marshes is a drab greenish-brown animal with short fins, and the veils, half-moons and metallic reds and blues of the…
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- Male Siamese fighting fish will fiercely fight other males, sometimes to the death, which is how they earned their name.
- Wild Betta splendens are dull brown with stubby fins; every colour and fin type in the shops is a human creation. The labyrinth organ means a betta will drown if it is prevented from reaching the surface. Male bettas are the sole parents, catching sinking eggs in their mouths and blowing them back into a bubble nest. Fighting fish were a licensed, taxed gambling sport in 19th-century Siam, and the king is said to have kept his own fighting stock.
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