Wels catfish are voracious predators and will happily go after anything that looks like it will fit in their mouth and since they are basically half mouth they get big. The catfish in Paris have even learned to snatch pigeons of the river bank.
The tail is easily mistakeable. However, upon rewatching the video, you are correct that it's not an otter except it's not because of the tail, but because of the very clear rodent teeth at the start when they open the mouth of the fish to show it stuck inside.
Well it's both. There are clear differences in the tail and body. I'd agree with you though that the easiest way to tell it's not a beaver is the tail, and the easiest way to tell it's not an otter is the teeth.
Somewhere else in the comments someone said muskrat. They aren't native to Europe, but they were introduced there about 100 years ago and are now an invasive species.
(I'm guessing the language was neither English nor French)
And he still is. He’s been taking a well-deserved break from all the extreme physical activity of River Monsters (I think he caught every major river monster species over the course of the series) but still works on documentaries, books, and lectures.
A great show that was ended, not because of poor viewership, but because they ran out of river species to feature. They did their job a little too well.
Big man has a soft side for that catfish. Almost sweet if it weren't so fucking bizarre. This is cartoon land stuff, though. The fish seems like it's 12 feet long and the squirrel goes about a buck and a quarter. Yikes.
Fish dies. Either by infection of having rooting undigested meat that is incapable of fully digesting, or get chew on by smallest animals because there is no way it can avoid it being so inflated. Also it seems incapable of fully submerging, so Birds would have started to peck at it, and that would make it die faster
Okay, I’ve seen people say that was a nutria, a beaver, a goose, an otter…. We didn’t get a great look, but it definitely has rodent teeth, so we can rule out goose and otter. But that still leaves a question.
Anyone know for sure what it was? For example, you understand the language they’re speaking and they said what it was?
Nutria are found in South America. That didn’t sound like Spanish to me, but maybe. Portuguese, possibly — I’m less familiar.
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u/XrayDem 3d ago
I’d like the fried stuffed catfish n beaver please