The original Fiji Mermaid was in PT Barnam's side show. It was a monkey and a fish stiched together and dried. Since then many more have been maid.
Its not real however, its just two parts of dead animals attached to eachother.
Pff... Despite the obvious fish-monkey theory, I'd say its a fish that died while EATING a monkey. Possibly a flyfish, to get up in the trees and
snag an orangutang.
It is not nessacarily a fiji mermaid. There have been sitings of mermaids, and the Fiji mermaids was billed by Barnum as a fake. Thats the weird
thing. If it was a fake, why bill it at all? Maybe it was real. Maybe that is real. But it definetly came from some water source.