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Killer Catfish!
Wed, 10/15/2008 - 06:34
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SCIENTISTS in India are studying a giant type of catfish after reports that an oversized creature had killed people.
The fish, called a goonch, was said to have developed a taste for human flesh after feasting on corpses thrown into the Great Kali river following funerals, The Daily Telegraph of Britain reported.
British biologist Jeremy Wade has studied the fish and is to report his findings in a television documentary to air in Britain on October 21.
He told the newspaper: “The locals have told me of a theory that this monster has grown extra large on a diet of partially burnt corpses. It has perhaps got this taste for flesh by feasting on remains of funeral pyres.”
After catching one goonch specimen, which weighed 73kg and was 1.83m long, he said: “If that got hold of you, there would be no getting away.”
The mysterious goonch is thought to have taken a 17-year-old Nepali boy in 1988. Witnesses said he was cooling himself in the river when something pulled him below the surface. Later that year a small boy was dragged under.
And last year, an 18-year-old Nepali disappeared in the river, after being dragged down by something described as like an “elongated pig”.
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Catfish are quite adaptable.
Check out these walking catfish:
Now I’m really scared. WALKING KILLER CATFISH!
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Catfish do not develop a taste for anything. They will eat anything. Although being incredibly stupid they have managed to evolve into an amazingly efficient survival machine. In the Amazon their have consistent reports throughout known history of giant cats preying on small children. I know this to be true. Growing up in Phila we used to play along the banks of the Deleware. That waterway was and is the single most vile river in the U.S. We were never scared of creatures because it was quite obvious that nothing could be alive in that virtual open sewer/cesspool. That is until one day, whilst testing homeade underwater explosive devices from a raft with my cousin Alfie, the waves from 1 of our toys knocked him into the murky depths. Last I saw of poor lil Alfie he was being dragged off in the jaws of a giant cat the size of a Buick.
I foresee a day, when mankind eventually dies off, it won’t be ants or locusts that inherit the earth. No, it will be giant walking catfish…smoking Havana cigars.
Greetings from Philly, Jeffromeister: my condolences on your loss of ‘poor lil Alfie.’
‘Noodling’ is a name given to a fishing technique employed extensively in Arkansas and Oklahoma (often by Native Americans). The ‘noodler’ runs his bare hand thru the underbrush on the riverbank, feeling for catfish; and when the ‘cat’ grabs one of his/her fingers, he/she lifts it out of the water – successful catch!
Champions of this ‘sport’ often have their name prefixed: ‘three finger Leroy,’ or ‘four finger Jake.’
Greetings from Philly, Jeffromeister: my condolences on your loss of ‘poor lil Alfie.’
‘Noodling’ is a name given to a fishing technique employed extensively in Arkansas and Oklahoma (often by Native Americans). The ‘noodler’ runs his bare hand thru the underbrush on the riverbank, feeling for catfish; and when the ‘cat’ grabs one of his/her fingers, he/she lifts it out of the water – successful catch!
Champions of this ‘sport’ often have their name prefixed: ‘three finger Leroy,’ or ‘four finger Jake.’