This Fish is Able To Kill Snakes & Other Animals While Walking On Land - Climbing Perch(Anabas testudineus)

 Climbing perch, also called Walking Fish, (Anabas testudineus), small Asian freshwater fish of the family Anabantidae (order Perciformes) noted for its ability to live and walk about out of water. The climbing perch is an air-breathing labyrinth fish. Rather oblong, brownish or green, it grows to about 25 cm (10 inches). It lives in ponds and ditches and sometimes emerges for short periods, “walking” with a jerky motion, aided by its tail and by spines on the lower edges of its gill covers. 

The aggressive climbing perch, known to choke birds and other fish when swallowed, is native to Southeast Asia and have spread south through Indonesia and Papua New Guinea in the past four decades, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and The Guardian.

The perch consumed protozoans, rotifer, crustaceans, insects, algae, diatoms and small quantities of other food items while the catfish feeds on insects, crustaceans, rotifers, molluscs


and as well as algae and diatoms. Mollusks especially snail is one of the major food item found in the stomach of R. rita.



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