How to pronounce “arowana” in English

So arowana-- I should also just back up for a second and explain that it's a family of fish.

But the arowana are, by far, the star attraction of this show.

So speaking of the arowana-- you guys have seen the cover.

This is the arowana.

And the arowana was the one that caught me in particular.

Don't Google arowana eats duckling.

And especially the arowana world.

Around the time my curiosity in the arowana began, I've been awarded a fellowship intended to fund a reporting project abroad.

And they're breeding these arowana and other rare fish, which may be causing a negative effect

And for that reason-- when the arowana was in a bad way-- the Asian arowana-- in the 90s, they

Bolstering this theory was a harrowing case in Indonesia where an arowana dealer and his heavily armed cronies allegedly kidnapped and held for ransom a Japanese buyer.

I would go see for myself where all these smuggled arowana were coming from and what made the species so irresistible.

And I mean-- the guppy versus inverse the arowana.

And the really expensive one is the Asian arowana.

So I ended up going after a new species of arowana in Myanmar.

Whatever the best metaphor, it seemed the Asian arowana had a long history of driving human beings to dangerous extremes.

these different characters and people, looking for the arowana?

In Malaysia, five arowana stolen from a woman's house were worth more than all her other possessions combined.

Yeah, not just in size-- the guppy is like this big and the arowana is pretty huge-- but also in price, and mystique, and so forth.

But when I asked him about-- and so he offered me this wonderful entry point into the world of the arowana.

I was surprised going through the book-- I was expecting an Indiana Jones pursuit of this arowana.

But the truth is, you really can't write about the arowana or any fish, I think, today, without coming face

I don't think I'm giving anything away when I say that there-- this new Myanmar arowana-- there actually was a new species that

So I thought I would just start by telling people how I first heard about this fish, the Asian arowana that "The Dragon Behind The Glass" was about.

A few years back, a 45-year-old housewife was arrested at the Melbourne airport trying to enter the country with 51 fish, including an Asian arowana hidden beneath her poofy skirt.

So for example, a Malaysian member of parliament, while I was reporting on this, received a text message with a dead arowana.

What would you say are-- well, first, I guess, is this the actual super red arowana that you were looking for?

And I think you've mentioned it already, but just for the audience, I thought the arowana was this small goldfish.

So when I was there, the biggest thing that happened that year were that there were these 10 albino arowanas.