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with its horn and frees itself. Hence its hunter falls prey to it and it enjoys eating its kill. Some other sea animals are also fed on the remains of its kill. When fishermen try to catch this fish, it attacks with its thorn, rips the boat up and eats the drowning fishermen! The hunter of Qūqī fish uses its skin to cover up his boat because its thorn harms its own skin. (ibid, pp. 363)
Qāṭūs is a huge fish; it attacks big boats and damages them. It has weird characteristics, if there is a woman in the boat with her period, the Qāṭūs fish does not go near the boat and the boatmen are well aware of this particular fish. If they come across it, they hurl dirty diapers contaminated with menstrual fluid in front of the fish, and it hurriedly swims away. (Derived from: ‘Ajāib-ul-Ḥaywānāt, pp. 220)
The Dolphin is a lovable and friendly fish. People on the boat get happy to see them. If a dolphin spots a drowning person, it rushes to rescue him and pushes him to the shore. Sometimes it gives a ride to a drowning man on its back and sometimes it moves the victim towards the beach through its tail. (ibid, pp. 221) Dolphins are found in the river Nile of Egypt, etc.
There is such a huge marine fish, which sometimes moves towards shallow waters by chance and the fish becomes restless and starts
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