This giant catfish, called a goonch, is suspected to grow great food after obtaining human bodies that are removed in the Great Kali river, where fish is arrested.
Fish that have been in mutation now in a biologist Jeremy Wade. Wade examine a giant catfish that for television & akan Five running television station in the near future.
"The local told me a theory that this monster has grown outside the usual big meal because the rest of the cremation. Perhaps they enjoy eating meat after human remains of the corpses "said Wade.
"It's likely there are a few that grow larger than the other & if you provide your food more, then they will grow larger again" he said.
Initially, Wade thought the crocodile eat the remains of corpses page. However, the theory was changed after he shifts attention to the goonch, a type of freshwater fish in the world.
He then captures them in a do 55 kg weight is estimated at 2m long. Weight and size of this can be called a world record because it is much heavier and larger than catfish ever caught before. "If this fish catch you, you will not be escaped," sahutnya.
For years, residents along the Great Times sure have a monster hiding in the river that flows in the India-Nepal border this.
However, they assume this monster always move along the river and mengincar people bathing in the river is. Years ago, teenagers 18 years of Nepal missing after a river in tow to by something described as' the length of the pig '.
Goonch first victims of this attack is a young man aged 17 years who also come from Nepal. He died after bathing in the river, set April 1988.
The witnesses said they saw the young man as drawn by something in a strong river. Three months after that incident, a child in tow to the water, while his father can see not only the wall
Other versions of giant catfish man eater
Great Kali Gandaki River is a river which is located on the border between India and Nepal. Stream of water from the source in the Himalaya Mountains in the height of 3600 mdpl.
The beauty of this river is no need to doubt. Unfortunately, a Legend frightening about the human eater monster, haunt the villages located in this area. Make people reluctant to play in the bath or around the water.
Genesis is the first terror of the ferocious creature of the river that occurred in April 1988. Nepal when a young man just entering the river, directly drawn by "things" and simply disappeared.
Three months criss, a son who is being bathed in the Kali River with his father, suddenly in the attack and the drag into the water. The father can only cry and can not do anything.
After that, events like this happen repeatedly to haunt the people living in the vicinity of the flow of river Kali. Even a few years, reports on the loss of a bath in the River Kali increasing.
Population and begin berargumentasi confused about the type of organism that lived there. Some people believe there is a set of crocodile living in the water. However, after investigation, it appeared that the community does not have a crocodile living in the area.
Finally, in 2007, a Nepali youth aged 18 years who are swimming in the river was drawn by mysterious monster, and so it disappeared from the surface of the water. According to witnesses who witnessed the incident, the form of a monster like that very large-sized pigs.
Goonch Fish, Lele cannibal
Pain's population finally missed when an expert from the British biologist Jeremy Wade called to do research on Kali River and find the answer to that surprising.
Wade found the fact that man is a monster eater is in fact a kind of giant catfish (Giant Cat Fish), which have experienced changes in DNA as they often eat the corpse dihanyutkan to the river after the first burned in a traditional burial rituals of the local community that is known by the name of a ritual Bagmati.
"Fish is a kind of endemic species of fish this river. However, as has been decades eat meat dihanyutkan corpses through the river, the fish is changed into the genetic distance larger than actual size.
They become addicted, and began to make human flesh into the main menu. So if there is no old funeral ritual, the fish became violent and attacked the man, "Wade explains.
In research, Jeremy Wade also successfully catch a catfish human flesh predator with the size of 1.8 meter and 73 kilogram weight range.
According to Wade, if the size of fish when the man attacked in the water, the little possibility of the victim to save himself. Wade ago named giant catfish is the name Goonch Fish.
Research trip to investigate when Jeremy Wade catfish eater man in River Kali Dakali has been in the documentation and will be shown first on October 21 later in one of the UK television station (Channel 5) with the title "Water Monster meat eater man."
Predator of Huadu's Furong
Not only in the Mekong River there is only type of giant catfish. Recently, in the Huadu's Furong Reservoir, China, going trepidation. During this time, in a year always occur only a few cases people drowned and lost in the mysterious reservoir that.
But finally the mystery that has been missed. Local residents succeeded in capturing a giant catfish the size of the body length reaches 3 meters and a width of around 1 meter. Gilanya again, when people rip the belly of the fish, they find "the remnants" of a man in the body of the fish ..
However, because local government is concerned this incident will impact on the tourism area, they work hard to ensure that events are not widely terpublikasi. But some tourists had come and perpetuate the image catfish pemangsa people with their mobile phone.
Some people think fish is a type of fish or Catfish Waking clarius batrachus (walking catfish). But that can not yet explain how the catfish may be sized centimeters can be so big.
When this community, both local and foreign tourists are not allowed to swim in the Huadu's Furong Reservoir. Many people estimate there is still a kind of fish that live in the reservoir, ready to prey people who swim there.
Giant Mekong River
The Mekong River is one of the main rivers in the world save a lot of different types of giant fish. Mekong River is a longest river to-12 in the world, and to the 10-largest in volume (to remove the water 475km ³ per year), he fills the area of 795,000 km ² of Tibet he flows through China's Yunnan province, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and vietnam.
All except China and Myanmar into the Mekong River Commission. Due to seasonal variations that differ in the flow and the "rapid" and waterfalls make navigation extremely difficult.
According to the researchers, this river is home to various types of freshwater fish giant. The most famous is the Mekong Giant Cat Fish. Type of giant catfish are living along the Mekong River which flows across several countries in Asia are.
In 2005, a Muangthai fishermen catch giant catfish of Grizzly bears in the Mekong River. Fish this size range with a 2.7 meter reach 646 pounds heavier.
Indeed, catching huge catfish in the Mekong River is not that strange. Have repeatedly local fishermen get huge catfish in the rivers. However, there is not likely to rival the size of the catfish that are arrested fishermen Muangthai.
Not Predator
With different cases in the River Kali in Nepal and Reservoir in Huadu's Forung China, there are no reports that indicate that the giant catfish in the Mekong River is pemangsa man.
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), a world body that moves in the field of conservation of natural resources have been entering data and save the existence of giant catfish from the Mekong River as a kind of rare animals and the water toward extinction.
Type of giant catfish, the attention has also been interesting WWF (Worl Wildlife Fund) and National Geografic Society. Ke2 organization is being jointly plan the protection of species of the fish.
Indeed, we are affraid if imagine the presence of those human flesh predator. We certainly will be if carefull swimming in rivers and freshwater lakes.
The question is how they can be a cannibal eats human & hooked?
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