Catfish, also known as catfish. There are many varieties, commonly including earth catfish, large-mouth catfish, pond catfish, Egyptian bearded catfish, etc., many of which are particularly huge varieties, weighing more than 100 pounds. Today the squad leader will take stock of these catfish killers!
<h1>European six-whisker catfish:</h1>
The scientific name is six-whisker catfish, which is distributed in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The six-whiskered catfish is long and scaleless, with a surprisingly wide mouth on its broad head, filled with rows of fine teeth like sandpaper, hundreds of them.
The largest individual can reach 40 kg; the earth catfish individual is smaller and grows slower, with the largest individual only about 80 cm long and weighing 4 kg. The head is flattened and the lower jaw protrudes from the upper jaw. 3 pairs of whiskers, the first pair of chins is shorter. The pectoral fins are strongly prickly, and the body color varies greatly with different living environments. Large fish, fierce, carnivorous.
<h1>Mekong giant catfish:</h1>
This is a giant catfish endemic to the Mekong River in Southeast Asia. It is currently the largest catfish on record in the world. A Mekong catfish that was captured in northern Thailand in 2005, with a length of 2.7 meters and a weight of 293 kg, is the largest Mekong catfish on record! Unlike the carnivorous European six-whiskered catfish, the Mekong catfish is herbivorous, flattened in mouth and mild in temperament.
Their survival has been seriously threatened by overfishing, water pollution, the construction of artificial dams and the destruction of wild habitats. Thai and Lao villagers, who now flow through the Mekong River, have pledged not to hunt the catfish again, which is known as the biggest progress in protecting the Mekong catfish in the past 10 years. In order to save the Mekong catfish, the Thai fisheries department has also actively built a giant catfish breeding base, and the artificially farmed giant catfish has been released back into the Mekong River.
<h1>Tank platypus :</h1>
Mainly in the Great Kali River on the border between India and Nepal, there used to be a legend of monsters eating people in the river, which is actually this giant catfish called tank duck mouth, because the local people have the custom of water burial, and the tank duck mouth living in the river often eats rot, which in turn derives the habit of attacking the living.
Jeremy Vader, a famous biologist and host of the River Troll show, once caught one of them, weighing 73 kilograms and nearly 183 centimeters long. In 2007, an 18-year-old Nepalese boy was dragged into the deep water by a mysterious water monster while swimming in the Great Kali River and never surfaced. Witnesses said the monster resembled an extended version of a pig. The first monster victims of the Great Kali River date back to 1988, when a 17-year-old Nepalese boy jumped into the river to bathe when he was suddenly dragged into the water by a mysterious water monster and died. Three months later, another little boy was dragged into the water by a water monster and disappeared, and when the little boy was attacked, his terrified father watched him disappear into the water. This water monster is exactly the tank duck mouth!