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The Kali River goonch attacks were a series of fatal attacks on humans believed to be perpetrated by a goonch weighing 90 kilograms (200 lb) [1] in three villages on the banks of the Kali River in India and Nepal, between 1998 and 2007. This is the subject of a TV documentary aired on 22 October 2008, [citation needed] as well as an episode ...
5 April 2009. (2009-04-05) –. 28 May 2017. (2017-05-28) River Monsters is a British and American wildlife documentary television series produced for Animal Planet by Icon Films of Bristol, United Kingdom. It is hosted by angler and biologist Jeremy Wade, who travels around the globe in search of big and dangerous fish.
[9] [10] [11] The Goonch catfish B. yarrelli has become an object of media attention as reports have surfaced of some of these fish feeding on funeral pyres in the Kali River. [12] There is speculation that some drownings have also been caused by large specimens that have "developed a taste" for human flesh from the corpses and subsequently ...
Synonyms. Pimelodus yarrelli Sykes, 1839. Bagarius yarrelli, also known as the goonch catfish, giant devil catfish, or simply Goonch, is a very large species of catfish in the genus Bagarius found in rivers in the Indian subcontinent. The species reaches up to 2 m (6.6 ft) in length. [2] It may be synonymous with B. bagarius.
A Northern Ireland man was sentenced Friday to a minimum of 20 years in prison after being found guilty by a U.K. court in what has been described as the biggest criminal "catfishing" case in the ...
Distribution and ecology. The wels catfish lives in large, warm lakes and deep, slow-flowing rivers. It prefers to remain in sheltered locations such as holes in the riverbed, sunken trees, etc. It consumes its food in the open water or in the deep, where it can be recognized by its large mouth. Wels catfish are kept in fish ponds as food fish.
If certified by wildlife officials, the recently caught blue catfish will easily unseat the previous record catch. ‘Monster’ catfish caught in Tennessee river, photos show. It could be a new ...
The fish broke the old record for length set in 2020 — by 9.5 inches.