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Ruby Red Lip
 
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435061,00.html
Locals Fear Giant Catfish Develop Taste for Live Humans After Feeding on Corpses in River Grave
Thursday, October 09, 2008
AP
File: A giant catfish in Cambodia.
A fearsome fish has started killing people after feeding on human corpses, scientists fear.
They reckon that a huge type of catfish, called a goonch, may have developed a taste for flesh in an Indian river where bodies are dumped after funerals.
Locals have believed for years that a mysterious monster lurks in the water. But they think it has moved on from scavenging to snatching unwary bathers who venture into the Great Kali, which flows along the India-Nepal border.
The extraordinary creature has been investigated by biologist Jeremy Wade for a TV documentary to be shown in Britain.
“The locals have told me of a theory that this monster has grown extra large on a diet of partially burnt corpses,” Wade said. “It has perhaps got this taste for flesh by feasting on remains of funeral pyres. There will be a few freak individuals that grow bigger than the other ones and if you throw in extra food, they will grow even bigger.”
Wade discounted theories that crocodiles could be responsible for the carnage before turning his attention to goonches — among the world’s biggest freshwater fish.
He caught one which tipped the scales at 161 lbs and was nearly 6 feet long — a world record weight and far bigger than any landed before.
“If that got hold of you, there’d be no getting away,” he said.
Well, lets hope they don't make it this way...I'm already sketchy about swimming in Saltwater...I'd hate to lose Freshwater also...
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"Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends"-
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Snapper
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| here's a pic - 
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Trigger
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| It's a good story, but no catfish can eat a man.
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Ruby Red Lip
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| If they are dumping corpses into a river, they have a lot more to worry about than catfish eating them.
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Mingo
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 yea thats what i was thinking
64ft Viking , Jena Suzanne 15 ft Boston Whaler, Spear Chunker
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Snapper
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| Looks like a sturgeon/catfish hybrid!!!
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Ruby Red Lip
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dont' mean to offend anyone, but it looks asian !!!
" If it smells like fish, eat it !"
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