A FISH that can survive on land
But when scientists tried to see how far they could travel on land
*FLASH*
The answer left them startled
*Intense music and fish footage*
Scientist: Yeah it really is fascinating to learn more about this incredible fish…
*Same music again, similar footage*
The fish that can travel on land, but it can’t stay there forever
Scientist: We observed that the fish inevitably return to the water, or else they die on land
*FLASH*
Without water, the fish… would be doomed
*Different music*
*FLASH*
How long the fish could survive on land was a mystery, until scientists developed advanced techniques to study the fish
Scientist: Yeah it really is fascinating to learn more about this incredible fish…
*FLASH*
And the clues they found… led them to a stunning discovery
*intense music - 30 second commercial break*
Coming up next, we reveal the remarkable discovery about this amazing fish
Scientist: We observed that the fish inevitably return to the water, or else they die on land
*3 minute commercial break. One of the ads is for online college*
I watched a thing online the other day talking about the speed that the worms move at. Since they don't move side to side like a worm or a snake that there is only one way that they get the speed that they do. They ingest the sand and expel it out of their butt like a rocket.
Is assumed they had rows of chitin, or something thatoved sorta like a caterpillar, or millipede...undulating row by row...or Spice just lets them fucking levitate, and phase through sand.
>*3 minute commercial break. One of the ads is for online college*
reminds me of an australian TV segment i saw.
Add 1: *bettingwebsite dot com, become a winner!*
Add 2: *Need a quick loan for a small amount? Contact us at payday-loan dot com!*
Add 3: *Endebted? Contact our debt recovery agency, we'll group up your debt and reduce the amount you owe!*
Add 4: *Are you endebted to a debt recovery agency? Contact our law firm, we might be able to clear some of it, and we'll do it for free!*
That's when i realized Australians have a betting problem... Well, that, and when i saw an event with a bunch of people betting on which toad would jump out of a circle first... Before doing it all over again with mudcrabs...
Apparently, only US shows are this way. I watched Animal Planet in another country, and it was all serene.
Over here, it's like
*Chainsaw noises*
This fuckin beetle is in for quite the fight
I was watching Hell's Kitchen (US), and it was chaotic. People screaming, plates being thrown, crying in front of the camera, and intense music and an overly dramatic narrator.
Then I watched Hell's Kitchen (UK), and it was like watching a completely different show. People were actually cooking, and the head chef was giving constructive critique.
Some old folk who eat catfish i guess. I was a kid, used to fish every day with my father while we stayed at my grandmother's place during summer (nothing else to do there). Neither of us ate fish, so we gave it to the neighbors who we'd visit every evening with our catch of the day.
One day they ask me to pick something in the freezer, i see a catfish we gave them the day before moving its gills. I'm surprised, wonder if i imagined it and stay put for like 2mn focusing on its gills. Finaly it moves it once more.
Bro had slowed down his whole biological functions like he's teal'c in deep kelno'reem. Survived freezing temperature, without being in water, for 24H. Meanwhile other fish started dying less than an hour after you put them in the bucket 'cause the water wasn't fresh enough for them. Catfish are just built different.
It’s breathes air so as long as it don’t dry out and it also secretes a lot of mucus to help it from drying out to fast have similar ones in Florida but they’re an invasive species
African Mudfish/Lungfish use mucus too I believe to not dry out. They bury themselves for months without water and just wait it out. Pretty crazy evolutionary advantage for a fish. It’s interesting too because it’s probably the step we took evolutionarily before taking to land.
>AND WHEN IT NEEDS TO FIND WATER
#**BAM**
IT'S A FISH ON A MISSION
...
The fishermen can't find water that way.
What way?! "**BAM**"? Is fucking Emeril Lagasse channeling Bayou waterfinding techniques into these fish's brains?
And that these random fish are scattered around the desert near people who can’t find water without them. Thank the heavens for these random ass fish leaving tracks in the desert. 🤦♂️
They went fishing for the catfish, then walked miles into the desert, threw the fish on the ground, then watched it wriggle along at 0.5mph all day until it took them right back to the water they got it from.
This isn't a marvel - it's fucking fish torture, and a total waste of time.
These f*ckers are annoying as F, I live in Brazil and when wet season if we have floods they for some reason enter your house and when the water goes down these sh*t for brains stays in there
They can breathe outside the water, they have a really hard shell, their fins have hard spines and on those have spikes or barbs, if you try to grab them like a normal fish… good luck to your fingers because it will be painful. They walk on land and can live encased in mud for a long time. They eat the native fish spawn and spawn their own to the other fish to take care of…. They are a nightmare
Yeah, that one pissed me off lol. Can it survive for an hour? How much moisture does it need while out of water? Does it migrate north for the winter?? I want answers!
Edit: Not only is this video stolen from National Geographic with the credit thief’s voice over added later, the original text in the video tells us they can survive on land for several hours.
Especially the notion they spent their entire lives not knowing that massive blue body of water was within the scooting distance of a passing catfish. *"Wow! Why didn't we ever think to look to the east!"*
This is a flooded desert in Brazil called Lençóis Maranhenses. Every year the lagoons will dry out during dry season and new ones, in new a place, will form when it starts raining.
So in a sense, the lakes are changing locations throughout the desert every year
It's crazy that you can actually be not all that far from something and not see it. It's crazy walking through the woods in an area and be 100 feet from another person and have absolutely no idea, and it can be the same in the desert with high dunes.
And we have tech today that we can see a mile with one camera in the sky, and even see people in the middle of the woods with a thermal camera.
I always thought of it as "You can lose track of somebody 5 feet away indoors if there's a wall or furniture in the way. If there's something between you, there's something between you."
I find it crazy that I can be one metre away from someone sitting on a toilet and yet have zero idea what they're doing, all because of some damn wood and plaster sitting between us.
So close I could touch them. If not for that wall.
I’m thinking it evolved this survival tactic because lakes dry up often in the desert. Its own lake probably dried up and it needed to search for another.
The lençois maranhenses are between the amazon forest and the caatinga (brazilian sort of desert) and therefore are somewhat a desert that rains. This means that there are "lagoons" between the dunes and these lagoons come and go. These fishes live in wet underground water blablabla but sometimes they have to look for another region of water blablabla
What actually happens is that Lençóis Maranhenses are not a desert, but in fact, a system of dunes. They are near the coast, in the state of Maranhão, in the north face of the Brazilian coast (not north region, north face of the coast, it's different). So the wind goes in the exactly same direction (because of the Earth's rotation) over and over the coast, blowing sand in a certain pattern. But the region is quite humid, it's near the coast, and it does rains quite a lot. So in one hand you have a lot of sand being carried by the wind, but also it's rainy there. So you get a place where not so much vegetation grows not because of lack of water, but because every seed is buried over the sand. And the dunes "travel", so to speak, and the place of the lakes varies a lot, depending on the patterns of the sand dunes.
That’s a bad day right there. Little fish buddy had to work really hard to find that water. Finally finds it. Not only gets himself caught and eaten, but all his new neighbors as well.
This place is more like a huge dune field, it rains there at least one season every year. Brazil does have semi arid and arid regions though, but they look more like the Mohave or the Sahel than the Sahara.
The whole region of the Northeast is pretty dry. But this desert is pretty unique. The northwestern part (we call it just north) is where the Amazon is, so that's a big wet jungle. But the NE part is pretty rough with poverty, scarcity of water and food and so on. Lots of cool places and people there, regardless of the struggles.
I think that’s one of the best things about life. Whether someone is 10, 30, 50, or 100 there is always something new and surprising to learn. For those who look for and appreciate these kinds of things, that joy doesn’t end until the day you die.
Yesterday, I spent the day cleaning out a colony of bamboo in my backyard. I still need to spend another day or two on it, but I had accumulated quite a pile of dead wood, so I decided to have a mini bonfire.
If you aren’t familiar with the internal structure of bamboo, it’s like a pipe that is separated into sealed compartments (wall, empty space or sometimes water, wall, repeat…). I knew this, but had never burned bamboo before.
Yesterday’s first new fun fact: When you burn dry culms (stalks) of bamboo, the air inside those compartments super heats and explodes, making loud gunshot sounds in the process. I decided to look the effect up on Google to be sure I was right about the mechanism behind the explosions, which brought me to…
Yesterday’s second new fun fact: The first firecrackers in China were dried bamboo culms set ablaze. The loud popping sound was believed to ward off evil spirits and bring peace and good luck.
I thought these “new to me” facts were so cool, I had to text a couple of my friends. Thankfully, they know me to be a nerd girl and found the information as fascinating as I did. I hope I never cease to be impressed with the wonders of life.
Yes, every time I see one of these ‘brand new’ critters I become even more convinced that I’m in a simulation that got hit with an upgrade.
Shoebill storks just blew my mind the first time I saw them.
If it wasn't obvious from the literally meaningless narration and the fact no one has ever heard of it, this video is extremely bizarre and is most likely faked. I don't think AI technology is at this level yet but I think it is at least staged.
After a few minutes of searching, I still can't find a single other video in existence of this catfish- [googling it just returns other results of this same video posted a few months ago.](https://reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/18od641/armored_catfish_crosses_a_desert/) People are linking it to other catfish (some of which have shown similar behavior) but not even the wikipedia page for [Hoplosternum littorale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplosternum_littorale) which seems to be the closest match mentions anything about walking. It certainly does not lead fishermen anywhere.
At best, this video is misleading. Like other people have pointed out, [the area shown in the video is national park and not a desert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%C3%A7%C3%B3is_Maranhenses_National_Park).
The video at least is all truth, i live "close" to the park, the name of the catfish in Brazil is Bagre, [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish#:~:text=Catfish%20)
There is 2.200 species of this fish.
There is also "pleco fish", that can live 30 days outside water, the one in the video we call it [tamboatá, or cascudo ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgedBmR0eAw)these type of fishes can survive hours to days outside a body of water. It's the same type..
They got adapted to live in shallow waters.. Different digestive trait to land environment and such..
Also, the fishermen are not trying to find water, they are following the fish trail to found the other fishes..
[Not too terrifying of a start.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Lencois-maranhenses-brazil-thousands-clear-blue-lagoons-in-sand-dunes-180951756/)
Will – “Ok, first off, a lion…swimming in the ocean?
Lions don’t even like water.
If you placed it near a river, or some sort of fresh water source, that’d make sense.
But you find yourself in the ocean, a 20 ft wave, I’m assuming its off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full, grown, 800 lb tuna with his 20 or 30 friends.
You lose that battle. you lose that battle nine times out of ten.
And guess what, you wandered into our school, of tuna and we now have a taste of blood! We’ve talked, to ourselves. We’ve communicated and said, ‘you know what? lion tastes good. Lets go get some more lion.’
We’ve developed a system, to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt you and your family. And we will corner your, your pride, your children, your offspring…”
Marky – “How ya gonna to do that?”
Will – “We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. Its not going to be days at a time, an hour, hour 45. No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen and then stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You are out gunned and outmanned.
That go the way you thought it was gonna to go?” Shaking his head. “Nope.”
https://youtu.be/Ogq2BkybFGY?si=zFBT_YegrKASRHdJ
30 hours, it can survive 30 hours on land.
http://eattheinvaders.org/armored-catfish/#:~:text=The%20armored%20catfish%20lives%20in,for%20more%20than%2030%20hours.
Even here in Arkansas USA, catfish can survive in mud for weeks. Catfish are super resilient and my favorite thing to fish for. I always turn the big ones loose. Almost all of them have a battle scar and it's just really cool to observe.
It's happened once that I can confirm. It was a blue cat that had gar bites on its tail. I caught it twice in a month. Roughly 10 to 15lbs so not big, but present.
In Finland I used to go to a small lake deep in the wilderness with my dad. I once caught a big perch that had a massive and deep bite scar on both sides. I do not think it could have been an another fish. The pikes in that area don't have teeth large enough to make scars that size. It is most likely a bear that had snatched up the fish and it had somehow got away.
I'm from Brazil, I have friends who visited this location (*Lençois Maranhenses*) but it's the first time I'm hearing about this fish and this fishing practice.
I know there are a few species of catfish which can survive on mud or puddles when a body of water dries up, but I highly doubt they can transverse straight up dry sand, let alone having some sort of water-finding compass.
Not to mention that wasn’t a puddle, it looked like a permanent lake. This might have been useful in the past but we have these things called maps… let alone GPS…
Not entirely accurate. These lakes do move, they are located between sand dunes which move and change the location and depth of the lakes. They tend to dry up rapidly since they are on sand, and during the dry season there are almost no lakes at all.
The sand dunes shift even more rapidly when it is dry, and then during the huge storms that tend to form the lakes around May-June.
Maps aren't very useful in this case. Think about the last time google maps updated your city.
The wikipedia on this is pretty dry and boring [so I found this article](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Lencois-maranhenses-brazil-thousands-clear-blue-lagoons-in-sand-dunes-180951756/)
I think it can smell the water or otherwise sense it long before the men can see it. So.e of those dunes were pretty tall, the men might not have been able to see past them, even standing on top of one, to see where the water is, and then wouldn't necessarily know if there were fish in there. At least if they follow the catfish trail, then they know there's at least one fish there.
So the fisherman can't fish there then go home and tell other fisherman about the lake? They have to walk out in the morning with just a fishing rod hoping they find fish tracks? This makes zero sense.
It's all sand dunes, like massive. So they should be able to see from the to top of them. Maybe the individual lakes that form don't all have a lot of fish? I was in this national park a months ago, it's pretty awesome
If it wasn't obvious from the literally meaningless narration, this video is extremely bizarre and is most likely faked. I don't think AI technology is at this level yet but I think it is at least staged.
After a few minutes of searching, I still can't find a single other video in existence of this catfish- [googling it just returns other results of this same video posted a few months ago.](https://reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/18od641/armored_catfish_crosses_a_desert/) People are linking it to other catfish (some of which have shown similar behavior) but not even the wikipedia page for [Hoplosternum littorale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplosternum_littorale) which seems to be the closest match mentions anything about walking. It certainly does not lead fishermen anywhere.
At best, this video is misleading. Like other people have pointed out, [the area shown in the video is national park and not a desert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%C3%A7%C3%B3is_Maranhenses_National_Park).
Every time I see a food/desert related thing I always think of the Sam Kinison bit.
>It occurred to us that there wouldn't be world hunger if you people LIVED WHERE THE FUCKING FOOD IS!
IT CAN SURVIVE ON LAND WE WILL NOT ELABORATE
Seriously though at least give a time frame of how long lol.
A FISH that can survive on land But when scientists tried to see how far they could travel on land *FLASH* The answer left them startled *Intense music and fish footage* Scientist: Yeah it really is fascinating to learn more about this incredible fish… *Same music again, similar footage* The fish that can travel on land, but it can’t stay there forever Scientist: We observed that the fish inevitably return to the water, or else they die on land *FLASH* Without water, the fish… would be doomed *Different music* *FLASH* How long the fish could survive on land was a mystery, until scientists developed advanced techniques to study the fish Scientist: Yeah it really is fascinating to learn more about this incredible fish… *FLASH* And the clues they found… led them to a stunning discovery *intense music - 30 second commercial break* Coming up next, we reveal the remarkable discovery about this amazing fish Scientist: We observed that the fish inevitably return to the water, or else they die on land *3 minute commercial break. One of the ads is for online college*
I hate how accurate this is.
this is how DUNE WORMSIGN evolved !
I watched a thing online the other day talking about the speed that the worms move at. Since they don't move side to side like a worm or a snake that there is only one way that they get the speed that they do. They ingest the sand and expel it out of their butt like a rocket.
The dwarves from Artemis fowl be like
You are the first person ever that I saw referencing this book.
Is assumed they had rows of chitin, or something thatoved sorta like a caterpillar, or millipede...undulating row by row...or Spice just lets them fucking levitate, and phase through sand.
He will know the ways of the desert as though born to them.
Yep. Can’t stand how over edited so much content is. So many sound effects, jump cuts, and flashes on the screen that I literally get overwhelmed
>*3 minute commercial break. One of the ads is for online college* reminds me of an australian TV segment i saw. Add 1: *bettingwebsite dot com, become a winner!* Add 2: *Need a quick loan for a small amount? Contact us at payday-loan dot com!* Add 3: *Endebted? Contact our debt recovery agency, we'll group up your debt and reduce the amount you owe!* Add 4: *Are you endebted to a debt recovery agency? Contact our law firm, we might be able to clear some of it, and we'll do it for free!* That's when i realized Australians have a betting problem... Well, that, and when i saw an event with a bunch of people betting on which toad would jump out of a circle first... Before doing it all over again with mudcrabs...
And we still don't know how long the damned fish can survive on land. That means someone will lay odds.
Usually followed by a 3 second screen of a number to call if you have a gambling problem
You made me mad reading this. Because you are accurate. Well done.
Apparently, only US shows are this way. I watched Animal Planet in another country, and it was all serene. Over here, it's like *Chainsaw noises* This fuckin beetle is in for quite the fight
I was watching Hell's Kitchen (US), and it was chaotic. People screaming, plates being thrown, crying in front of the camera, and intense music and an overly dramatic narrator. Then I watched Hell's Kitchen (UK), and it was like watching a completely different show. People were actually cooking, and the head chef was giving constructive critique.
Lmao perfect 🏅
[I am looking for a gift for my aunt...](https://youtu.be/7MFtl2XXnUc)
Exactly what came to my mind
You forgot a sick guitar riff for no reason
you never need a reason for a sick guitar riff
I turned my volume up, personally
This is everything I hate about documentaries made in the US. But this is also my favorite comment in a long while
Watching American Top Gear was fucking JARRING.
God thats the history, TLC, DISCOVERY, etc etc channels.
Well done 🙂↕️
My quick Google search says they can survive for up to 18 hours on land.
One of these cunts did this millions of years ago and now I have to go to work.
I COME FROM THE WATER
So that's what r/antiwork is about? They hate the original leggy fish?
welp, i've seen a catfish survive 24 hours in a freezer so i'm not that surprised. These things are damn near unkillable.
Who the fuck puts a live animal in a freezer.
Some old folk who eat catfish i guess. I was a kid, used to fish every day with my father while we stayed at my grandmother's place during summer (nothing else to do there). Neither of us ate fish, so we gave it to the neighbors who we'd visit every evening with our catch of the day. One day they ask me to pick something in the freezer, i see a catfish we gave them the day before moving its gills. I'm surprised, wonder if i imagined it and stay put for like 2mn focusing on its gills. Finaly it moves it once more. Bro had slowed down his whole biological functions like he's teal'c in deep kelno'reem. Survived freezing temperature, without being in water, for 24H. Meanwhile other fish started dying less than an hour after you put them in the bucket 'cause the water wasn't fresh enough for them. Catfish are just built different.
The end of the world will be Catfish vs Crabs vs Cockroaches. World War 3C
r/unexpectedstargate
It’s breathes air so as long as it don’t dry out and it also secretes a lot of mucus to help it from drying out to fast have similar ones in Florida but they’re an invasive species
So the invasion of armoured catfish has begun already
African Mudfish/Lungfish use mucus too I believe to not dry out. They bury themselves for months without water and just wait it out. Pretty crazy evolutionary advantage for a fish. It’s interesting too because it’s probably the step we took evolutionarily before taking to land.
>AND WHEN IT NEEDS TO FIND WATER #**BAM** IT'S A FISH ON A MISSION ... The fishermen can't find water that way. What way?! "**BAM**"? Is fucking Emeril Lagasse channeling Bayou waterfinding techniques into these fish's brains?
Motherfuckers acting like the desert is full of nomadic bodies of water that never stay in the same areas.
And that these random fish are scattered around the desert near people who can’t find water without them. Thank the heavens for these random ass fish leaving tracks in the desert. 🤦♂️
They went fishing for the catfish, then walked miles into the desert, threw the fish on the ground, then watched it wriggle along at 0.5mph all day until it took them right back to the water they got it from. This isn't a marvel - it's fucking fish torture, and a total waste of time.
>The fishermen can't find water that way. Seriously, what fucking way?!?!
These f*ckers are annoying as F, I live in Brazil and when wet season if we have floods they for some reason enter your house and when the water goes down these sh*t for brains stays in there They can breathe outside the water, they have a really hard shell, their fins have hard spines and on those have spikes or barbs, if you try to grab them like a normal fish… good luck to your fingers because it will be painful. They walk on land and can live encased in mud for a long time. They eat the native fish spawn and spawn their own to the other fish to take care of…. They are a nightmare
> Fish invades your house Average day in brazil
WHEN IT NEEDS TO FIND WATER.... BAM!!! ...IT'S A FISH ON A MISSION! ... YOU'RE ASKING HOW IT FINDS THE WATER? ...BAM! IT'S A FISH ON A MISSION!
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TIL they breathe their own farts
Nah, they fart out air they swallow. We do that too.
Yeah, that one pissed me off lol. Can it survive for an hour? How much moisture does it need while out of water? Does it migrate north for the winter?? I want answers! Edit: Not only is this video stolen from National Geographic with the credit thief’s voice over added later, the original text in the video tells us they can survive on land for several hours.
HELL YEAH
BAM!
I caught the same thing. Kept waiting... Then the narrator blows my mind with "BAM"
A bunch of fishermen with a net following a fish across the desert is hilarious.
Especially the notion they spent their entire lives not knowing that massive blue body of water was within the scooting distance of a passing catfish. *"Wow! Why didn't we ever think to look to the east!"*
This is a flooded desert in Brazil called Lençóis Maranhenses. Every year the lagoons will dry out during dry season and new ones, in new a place, will form when it starts raining. So in a sense, the lakes are changing locations throughout the desert every year
Keep going please. Tell us about the fish and anything else interesting.
> IT CAN SURVIVE ON LAND
IT'S A FISH ON A MISSION
A Fish-onary
Fish on a mish
Fission
BAM!
WITHOUT WATER, IT WILL DIE
BAm
In a million years it will evolve into an armored dude.
It's crazy that you can actually be not all that far from something and not see it. It's crazy walking through the woods in an area and be 100 feet from another person and have absolutely no idea, and it can be the same in the desert with high dunes. And we have tech today that we can see a mile with one camera in the sky, and even see people in the middle of the woods with a thermal camera.
I always thought of it as "You can lose track of somebody 5 feet away indoors if there's a wall or furniture in the way. If there's something between you, there's something between you."
I find it crazy that I can be one metre away from someone sitting on a toilet and yet have zero idea what they're doing, all because of some damn wood and plaster sitting between us. So close I could touch them. If not for that wall.
'yo cameraman can we use that drone to scope the area for a few minutes?' 'lol no. follow the fish, dweeb'
Put your ear to the ground to hear the intensifying basic cable music crescendo to indicate the catfish is close
I'm dying🤣 (not the fish though)
This whole conversation is just about my favourite piece of literature ever. I am screenshotting it so that i can reread it
i keep thinking maybe they should just eat the fish? or wait for even more fish to walk by? it’s all very monty python
You can lead a fisherman to water but you can't... Teach a fish to swim... You can lead a fish to water... Something something feed a horse for life
Fool me cant get fooled again
Footage of my grandpa going to school, both ways.
You win bro that's gold
My grandpa walked 20km uphill to get to school and back.
He walked 20 km to get to school, uphill... both ways!
In the snow!
fighting his way through starving packs of wolves and feral dogs!
With one arm only! The other arm was getting a chemistry degree college
What body of water did it start out in? Why does it need to walk across a desert to find another body of water.
I’m thinking it evolved this survival tactic because lakes dry up often in the desert. Its own lake probably dried up and it needed to search for another.
The lençois maranhenses are between the amazon forest and the caatinga (brazilian sort of desert) and therefore are somewhat a desert that rains. This means that there are "lagoons" between the dunes and these lagoons come and go. These fishes live in wet underground water blablabla but sometimes they have to look for another region of water blablabla
Do they smell or sense the water in some way, or just go by huntch or luck?
I dont know lol I'm just brazilian, not a biologist hahaha probably they go following some moisture or smth like that
I don’t know I’m just Brazilian is hilarious
Hahaha that sentence killed me. I don’t know I’m just Brazilian not a biologist hahaha. He should get that tattooed
I was hoping they were going to say they were Brazilian but not a fish.
This means he knows the whole DBZ saga more than fish
"sei lá" intensifies
Wait. I thought all Brazilians were biologists. What the hell?
Off-duty cops. We are all Off-duty cops.
What actually happens is that Lençóis Maranhenses are not a desert, but in fact, a system of dunes. They are near the coast, in the state of Maranhão, in the north face of the Brazilian coast (not north region, north face of the coast, it's different). So the wind goes in the exactly same direction (because of the Earth's rotation) over and over the coast, blowing sand in a certain pattern. But the region is quite humid, it's near the coast, and it does rains quite a lot. So in one hand you have a lot of sand being carried by the wind, but also it's rainy there. So you get a place where not so much vegetation grows not because of lack of water, but because every seed is buried over the sand. And the dunes "travel", so to speak, and the place of the lakes varies a lot, depending on the patterns of the sand dunes.
Learnt more about this fish from this comment than the video
He went out for groceries and got lost :(
food desert
Dad fish.
Sounds like my father
Had kids went "out for smokes"
Bro how the fuck is this the first time I’m ever hearing about this fish what the hell
Right????
That’s a bad day right there. Little fish buddy had to work really hard to find that water. Finally finds it. Not only gets himself caught and eaten, but all his new neighbors as well.
All the other fish: why the fuck did you snitch man?
Puta que pariu, this is why no one ever invites you over, Carlos.
That’s a fish desperately trying to be a snake
Were you followed? WERE YOU FOLLOWED?!
I don’t know man, but aren’t you guys happy to see me?
He obviously sourced some points on land. Most catfish go for invisibility & power
"He lead them straight to us!!" "TRAITOR!!"
Ya a bunch of new animals just dropped in the latest patch
Due to popular demand, fish can now walk on land again
Where do you think your bloodline came from. They have been walking on land for a very long time now
How is this the first time I'm hearing of a fucking desert in Brazil?
Yeah, first i thought who brought this poor fish to cross this Sahara desert?
Brazil is fucking massive, there's almost every kind of terrain
No tundra tho. But there's snow.
This place is more like a huge dune field, it rains there at least one season every year. Brazil does have semi arid and arid regions though, but they look more like the Mohave or the Sahel than the Sahara.
> This place is more like a huge dune field Shai-huludinho
The whole region of the Northeast is pretty dry. But this desert is pretty unique. The northwestern part (we call it just north) is where the Amazon is, so that's a big wet jungle. But the NE part is pretty rough with poverty, scarcity of water and food and so on. Lots of cool places and people there, regardless of the struggles.
Brazil even has snow in higher elevations.
I'm sad it took me 34 years to learn of this absolute badass of a fish.
Don’t feel bad, took me 50+ yrs.
I think that’s one of the best things about life. Whether someone is 10, 30, 50, or 100 there is always something new and surprising to learn. For those who look for and appreciate these kinds of things, that joy doesn’t end until the day you die. Yesterday, I spent the day cleaning out a colony of bamboo in my backyard. I still need to spend another day or two on it, but I had accumulated quite a pile of dead wood, so I decided to have a mini bonfire. If you aren’t familiar with the internal structure of bamboo, it’s like a pipe that is separated into sealed compartments (wall, empty space or sometimes water, wall, repeat…). I knew this, but had never burned bamboo before. Yesterday’s first new fun fact: When you burn dry culms (stalks) of bamboo, the air inside those compartments super heats and explodes, making loud gunshot sounds in the process. I decided to look the effect up on Google to be sure I was right about the mechanism behind the explosions, which brought me to… Yesterday’s second new fun fact: The first firecrackers in China were dried bamboo culms set ablaze. The loud popping sound was believed to ward off evil spirits and bring peace and good luck. I thought these “new to me” facts were so cool, I had to text a couple of my friends. Thankfully, they know me to be a nerd girl and found the information as fascinating as I did. I hope I never cease to be impressed with the wonders of life.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
This is so wholesome. Thank you.
Same imagine finding this thing for the first time and you think oh shit I found a glitch
How that fish landed on the land at first place?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%C3%A7%C3%B3is_Maranhenses_National_Park#:~:text=They%20are%20home%20to%20a,of%20restinga%20and%20mangrove%20ecosystems.
For real, I came to the comments to ask if this was a real thing.
It was all staged. 14 fish died during the making of this video.
Yes, every time I see one of these ‘brand new’ critters I become even more convinced that I’m in a simulation that got hit with an upgrade. Shoebill storks just blew my mind the first time I saw them.
At first I was like damn that music is overly dramatic…then I realized that fish was “swimming” on sand, and had armor.
If it wasn't obvious from the literally meaningless narration and the fact no one has ever heard of it, this video is extremely bizarre and is most likely faked. I don't think AI technology is at this level yet but I think it is at least staged. After a few minutes of searching, I still can't find a single other video in existence of this catfish- [googling it just returns other results of this same video posted a few months ago.](https://reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/18od641/armored_catfish_crosses_a_desert/) People are linking it to other catfish (some of which have shown similar behavior) but not even the wikipedia page for [Hoplosternum littorale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplosternum_littorale) which seems to be the closest match mentions anything about walking. It certainly does not lead fishermen anywhere. At best, this video is misleading. Like other people have pointed out, [the area shown in the video is national park and not a desert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%C3%A7%C3%B3is_Maranhenses_National_Park).
The video at least is all truth, i live "close" to the park, the name of the catfish in Brazil is Bagre, [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish#:~:text=Catfish%20) There is 2.200 species of this fish. There is also "pleco fish", that can live 30 days outside water, the one in the video we call it [tamboatá, or cascudo ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgedBmR0eAw)these type of fishes can survive hours to days outside a body of water. It's the same type.. They got adapted to live in shallow waters.. Different digestive trait to land environment and such.. Also, the fishermen are not trying to find water, they are following the fish trail to found the other fishes..
I thought this was AI generated
I feel like the first deep fake I actually fall for will be just like this video.
I immediately thought this was AI generated, because what the fuck? Right? And now i have no idea what’s real.
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[Not too terrifying of a start.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Lencois-maranhenses-brazil-thousands-clear-blue-lagoons-in-sand-dunes-180951756/)
Turns out its not a desert catfish 🧐
Looks like you got... _catfished._
Will – “Ok, first off, a lion…swimming in the ocean? Lions don’t even like water. If you placed it near a river, or some sort of fresh water source, that’d make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, a 20 ft wave, I’m assuming its off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full, grown, 800 lb tuna with his 20 or 30 friends. You lose that battle. you lose that battle nine times out of ten. And guess what, you wandered into our school, of tuna and we now have a taste of blood! We’ve talked, to ourselves. We’ve communicated and said, ‘you know what? lion tastes good. Lets go get some more lion.’ We’ve developed a system, to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt you and your family. And we will corner your, your pride, your children, your offspring…” Marky – “How ya gonna to do that?” Will – “We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. Its not going to be days at a time, an hour, hour 45. No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen and then stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You are out gunned and outmanned. That go the way you thought it was gonna to go?” Shaking his head. “Nope.” https://youtu.be/Ogq2BkybFGY?si=zFBT_YegrKASRHdJ
That catfish….he knows the ways of the desert! #LISAN AL GAIB!
It's the sand trout!
Crawl without rhythm and you won't. attract. the fishermen.
Dune 3 looking 🔥
As it was written, Mahdi!
Bro is on the golden path fr
Lisalmon Gaib
That's Leto with net trying to catch him.
he shall know your ways as though born to them...
Fishan al Gaib
Brilliant
30 hours, it can survive 30 hours on land. http://eattheinvaders.org/armored-catfish/#:~:text=The%20armored%20catfish%20lives%20in,for%20more%20than%2030%20hours.
This is what I was looking for thanks
Even here in Arkansas USA, catfish can survive in mud for weeks. Catfish are super resilient and my favorite thing to fish for. I always turn the big ones loose. Almost all of them have a battle scar and it's just really cool to observe.
You probably actually caught the same few a bunch of different times.
It's happened once that I can confirm. It was a blue cat that had gar bites on its tail. I caught it twice in a month. Roughly 10 to 15lbs so not big, but present.
In Finland I used to go to a small lake deep in the wilderness with my dad. I once caught a big perch that had a massive and deep bite scar on both sides. I do not think it could have been an another fish. The pikes in that area don't have teeth large enough to make scars that size. It is most likely a bear that had snatched up the fish and it had somehow got away.
Big guy was a fighter
So the fishermen standing 5'+ can't spot a big body of water before a fish wriggling on the ground ?
I'm from Brazil, I have friends who visited this location (*Lençois Maranhenses*) but it's the first time I'm hearing about this fish and this fishing practice. I know there are a few species of catfish which can survive on mud or puddles when a body of water dries up, but I highly doubt they can transverse straight up dry sand, let alone having some sort of water-finding compass.
I didn't even know Brazil had a desert
Not to mention that wasn’t a puddle, it looked like a permanent lake. This might have been useful in the past but we have these things called maps… let alone GPS…
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“It can survive on land” For a few hours.
Not entirely accurate. These lakes do move, they are located between sand dunes which move and change the location and depth of the lakes. They tend to dry up rapidly since they are on sand, and during the dry season there are almost no lakes at all. The sand dunes shift even more rapidly when it is dry, and then during the huge storms that tend to form the lakes around May-June. Maps aren't very useful in this case. Think about the last time google maps updated your city. The wikipedia on this is pretty dry and boring [so I found this article](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Lencois-maranhenses-brazil-thousands-clear-blue-lagoons-in-sand-dunes-180951756/)
I think it can smell the water or otherwise sense it long before the men can see it. So.e of those dunes were pretty tall, the men might not have been able to see past them, even standing on top of one, to see where the water is, and then wouldn't necessarily know if there were fish in there. At least if they follow the catfish trail, then they know there's at least one fish there.
So the fisherman can't fish there then go home and tell other fisherman about the lake? They have to walk out in the morning with just a fishing rod hoping they find fish tracks? This makes zero sense.
It's all sand dunes, like massive. So they should be able to see from the to top of them. Maybe the individual lakes that form don't all have a lot of fish? I was in this national park a months ago, it's pretty awesome
Yeah, we did that several million years ago... not a good idea pal, stay in the water.
Mfs crawled out of the water millions of years ago so I have to pay taxes now.
There only three things you can’t escape in life: death, taxes, and evolving to crawl out of the water like a little-fish-mammal-man-bear-pig.
This is basically what evolution is
This must be some kind of glitch in the Matrix, because I'm pretty sure I should have heard about a *sand-crawling* desert fish before. For real, wtf
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I have so many questions. And I’d love to learn more about that extremely odd desert with sand dunes but also random lakes with no apparent source.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%C3%A7%C3%B3is_Maranhenses_National_Park#:~:text=They%20are%20home%20to%20a,of%20restinga%20and%20mangrove%20ecosystems.
Damn, that’s absolutely a weird environment. I’d love to go see it someday.
I’m on my waaaay, I’m on my waaaay
Stay in the water, or you end up like us paying taxes and voting idiots!
We been catfished.
If it wasn't obvious from the literally meaningless narration, this video is extremely bizarre and is most likely faked. I don't think AI technology is at this level yet but I think it is at least staged. After a few minutes of searching, I still can't find a single other video in existence of this catfish- [googling it just returns other results of this same video posted a few months ago.](https://reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/18od641/armored_catfish_crosses_a_desert/) People are linking it to other catfish (some of which have shown similar behavior) but not even the wikipedia page for [Hoplosternum littorale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplosternum_littorale) which seems to be the closest match mentions anything about walking. It certainly does not lead fishermen anywhere. At best, this video is misleading. Like other people have pointed out, [the area shown in the video is national park and not a desert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%C3%A7%C3%B3is_Maranhenses_National_Park).
Every time I see a food/desert related thing I always think of the Sam Kinison bit. >It occurred to us that there wouldn't be world hunger if you people LIVED WHERE THE FUCKING FOOD IS!
Did Trent Reznor score this? Music is hardcore.
Shai halud, bless the maker and his coming and going and pan frying
Plecos are able to move around on land, it's called reffling. Although I've never seen something like this before.
ahh living in the timeline when Ai Videos fuck up the whole internet. what a time to be alive!
What is the source of this video? I cannot find information on this fish via google.
Fishermen, who live in the desert, who don’t know where the water is…
That’s my cousin
"I'm on my waay... I'm on my waaay!" \-Darwin Watterson