i saw one on tv and it was brown and had whiskers but since that was on tv cartoon do they have whiskers in real life?
2007-08-01 08:31:01 · 10 answers · asked by Hunny b 4 in Pets ➔ Fish
Yes they do. They are actually called barbels, though. They use them to search through the mud of the lake bed for food.
2007-08-01 08:34:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes they have whiskers,hence the namen catfish....they use their whiskers to detect where they are going its like a 6th sense kinda thing...i've seen them use their whisker when a gold was passing by and the moment it touched its whisker the catfish ate it...pretty kool poor goldfish though
2007-08-01 10:11:40 · answer #2 · answered by charlie lakeo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they all have whiskers. Some are different colors. My friends and I catch black ones in our pond behind our house. It was weird because we thought there were only bass and blue gill in it.
2007-08-01 08:34:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know if they are called "whiskers" but they look like whiskers, hence catfish. They is also a dogfish too.
2007-08-01 08:37:13 · answer #4 · answered by ChillChick 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes they do, but they're called barbels. They're used to sense the substrate for food particles to eat.
~ZTM
2007-08-01 09:44:53 · answer #5 · answered by ZooTycoonMaster 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are called barbels. They are sensitive extensions that allow the fish to feel through the murky water and find their prey. Many other fish have these too.
Nosoop4u
2007-08-01 09:55:54 · answer #6 · answered by nosoop4u246 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-08-01 08:38:30 · answer #7 · answered by Karisa B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep my two do
2007-08-01 08:37:43 · answer #8 · answered by Dory the Fish 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They have these wiskers that can sense where their going because they live in muddy waters
:)
2007-08-01 08:34:01 · answer #9 · answered by anna a 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well duh of course they do
2007-08-01 08:44:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋