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-[[Image:Big Fish Eat Little Fish is a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.JPG|thumb|right|200px|''[[Big Fish Eat Little Fish]]'', a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder]]+[[Image:Big Fish Eat Little Fish is a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.JPG|thumb|left|200px|''[[Big Fish Eat Little Fish]]'', a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder]]
-[[Image:Frans Rijckhals- Beached Fish - kopie 2.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Beached Fish]]'', a painting by Frans Rijckhals]]+[[Image:Frans Rijckhals- Beached Fish - kopie 2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Beached Fish]]'' (1643), a painting by Frans Rijckhals]]
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A '''fish''' is a [[cold-blooded]] [[vertebrate]] [[animal]] that lives in [[water]]. A '''fish''' is a [[cold-blooded]] [[vertebrate]] [[animal]] that lives in [[water]].

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Big Fish Eat Little Fish, a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Big Fish Eat Little Fish, a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Beached Fish (1643), a painting by Frans Rijckhals
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Beached Fish (1643), a painting by Frans Rijckhals

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A fish is a cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water.

Fish in culture

Through the ages, many cultures have featured fish in their legends and myths, from the "great fish" that swallowed Jonah the Prophet through to the half-human, half-fish mermaid around which books and movies have been centred (e.g., Splash). Among the deities said to take the form of a fish are Ika-Roa of the Polynesians, Dagon of various ancient Semitic peoples, and Matsya of the Dravidas of India. The astrological symbol Pisces is based on a constellation of the same name, but there is also a second fish constellation in the night sky, Piscis Austrinus. Fish have been used figuratively in many different ways, for example the ichthys used by early Christians to identify themselves through to the fish as a symbol of fertility among Bengalis. Fish have also featured prominently in art and literature, as in movies such as Finding Nemo and books such as The Old Man and the Sea. Large fish, particularly sharks, have frequently been the subject of horror movies and thrillers, most notably the novel Jaws, which spawned a series of films of the same name that in turn inspired similar films or parodies such as Shark Tale, Snakehead Terror, and Piranha.

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