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Pugnacious Forager. After studying five mature walking catfish, Biologists Vernon Ogilvie and Robert Goodrick issued an alarming report. The fish can jump 4 ft. out of water and move overland at will. It sleeps during daylight hours but becomes "very active" at night or when it is disturbed. It is so strong and slippery that it is virtually impossible to handle. One specimen, placed in a 70-gal. tank with other fish, promptly attacked and killed a fish of equal size. "All other fish in the tank gave the Clarias a wide berth," the scientists noted, "a piranha being...
These prodigious feats have Floridians worried that the walking catfish will turn out to be the most formidable immigrant of them all. Other pests can often be controlled or eliminated. But, as Ogilvie and Goodrick note in their report: "A fish with the ability and inclination to leave the water and walk around is, to the best of our knowledge, unmanageable...
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