Keep your swimming pants on: Swedish men warned of testicle-biting fish (PHOTO)

Jeri Vanak holds a fish she recently caught at the Gila Gravity Canal near Highway 95 near Yuma, Ariz., June 7, 2006. She took it to the Arizona Game and Fish Department's office in Yuma, where it was identified as a Pacu, a South American species that is in the same family as piranhas but which is primarily a vegetarian. (AP Photo/Yuma Sun, Jacob Lopez)Pacu are sometimes kept as pets and, while they are not normally dangerous, can cause serious damage with their teeth.

Swedish men are being cautioned to keep their pants on if they decide to take a dip in the waters off the country’s southern coast after the discovery of a fish known for attacking testicles.

A pacu, a relative of the piranha with human-like chompers, was recently caught in an eel trap in the Oresund Sound, prompting experts to issue an alert.

“Keep your swimwear on if you’re bathing in the Sound these days — maybe there are more out there,” the Natural History Museum of Denmark warned.

 The aggressive freshwater fish are mostly found in the Amazon and are sometimes known as “ball cutters.”
"Keep your swimwear on if you're bathing in the [Oresund] Sound these days — maybe there are more out there," the Natural History Museum of Denmark cautioned in a statement.

“Keep your swimwear on if you’re bathing in the [Oresund] Sound these days — maybe there are more out there,” the Natural History Museum of Denmark cautioned in a statement.

Henrick Carl, a fish expert at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, told Sweden’s The Local that pacu bite when they are hungry and “testicles sit nicely in their mouth.”

“And its mouth is not so big, so of course it normally eats nuts, fruit, and small fish, but human testicles are just a natural target,” he said. “It’s not normal to get your testicles bitten off, of course, but it can happen, especially now in Sweden.”

Fishermen have reportedly bled to death after losing their testicles to the fish. However, Carl told The Local that people shouldn’t be too worried because “you’re more likely to drown that get your nuts bitten off.”

Pacu can grow to be 3 feet and weigh up to 55 pounds.

In 2012, a pacu was found in an Illinois lake. A few months later, another was caught in a Texas river. Wildlife officials said in both instances they believed the fish were illegally released into the wild by pet owners.

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