Fur-Bearing Trout: Fact or Fantasy?

By Samantha Marx from Johannesburg, South Africa – Fur bearing trout. Very rare.Uploaded by LongLiveRock, CC BY 2.0, Link

Anyone who has poked around the fly-fishing corners of the Internet has probably come across the above the above photo, purporting to be a rare species of trout that’s covered in fur. (There’s even a Wikipedia page on this astounding creature.) It’s the piscine equivalent of the jackalope, but where did it come from? An entertaining article on MSN tries to tackle this taxonomic condundrum:

Add this one to your list of 20th-century Americana weirdness: the fur-bearing trout, a legendary fish said to grow a thick pelt of fur to survive frigid waters. This urban legend has made its way through folklore, satire, hoaxes, and museum shelves for over a century. Someone has even created an entire website dedicated to the fur-bearing trout.

Click here for the full story on MSN.com

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