Oscar Fish
The Oscar Fish, or to give it its scientific name, Astronontus ocellatus. Astronontus actually means being marked with a star on the back. Ocellatus means bearing an "eye spot" The Oscar is a fresh water fish that is a member of the Cichlid (pronounced sick-lid) family which is native to the Orinoco, La Plata, and Amazon river in South America where they inhabit the many slow-moving rivers & lakes in the Amazon Region.
There are only two seasons in the tropics, wet and dry. Six months of the year, 120,000 km of rainforest is flooded with water as deep as 20 m. The Amazon holds 10 times more water than the Mississippi. More water flows through the Amazon in one day than it does in the Thames in one year. The Amazon river is home to some of the largest fish in the world including massive catfish and the elusive Arapaima which can reach lengths of over 4 m.
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