Lajamanu is a very dry Australian town near the Tanami Desert. It sees very little normal rain, but it has experienced no less than four “fish rains” in the last half-century — once in 1974, another in 2004, again in 2010, and last Sunday. Locals say that live fish started falling from the sky during a heavy storm.
Such unusual natural phenomena have been reported in the past. However, Michael Hammer, a curator(馆长) of fishes who has examined such incidents(事件) in the past, says 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 town. The fish picked up from the streets were recognized as spangled perch. They are common freshwater fish that were 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 say that at least some of the fish were alive. An expert says 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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