Is there really such a thing as a walking catfish. Supposedly walk when forced to by drought conditions.?

Answer 1

Yes, it is true. The southeast Asian walking catfish (Clarius batrachus) has been introduced into several parts of the United States, and has become a major pest in Florida fish farms, where they get into ponds of commercial fish stocks and eat the fish.

Further study has shown that they don't really walk in drought conditions, though. They still dry out easily, and only do their terrestrial slithering travel when the humidity in the air is sufficient to keep them from drying out too quickly.

They do not normally do this, and usually live in water like normal fish, but extreme environmental pressure (drastic drops in their local dissolved oxygen content, or depletion of food sources) may induce them to go wandering. This may be analogous to how the first lobe-finned fish acted in the Permian swamps to become the first amphibians.

There are other air-breathing fish that can and will leave water for a time. These include the Chinese snakehead (also introduced in the US), the amia or bowfin, and mudskippers.

There are also critters like the lungfish of Africa and Australia that breathe air when their ponds dry up - burrowing themselves deep in the mud to wait for the pond to refill. Note that these drought-induced air breathers do not wander in search of new water, but enter aestivation to await the rainy season.

Answer 2

maximum no, yet their is a catfish that inhabits Florida, South united statesa., China, and that i think of Africa, that's referred to as (oddly sufficient) the strolling catfish, that's a non interior sight spices, and right here to stay. they could stay out of water for just about an afternoon in the event that they do no longer look to be in direct solar easy, it incredibly is the reason they're a delicacy in the rule of thumb areas of China, yet different clever they are to no longer good (have faith me, i found the stressful way), my dogs used to get them each and every of the time whilst they have been in the backyard.

Answer 3

Yes, although it doesn't so much walk as it does wiggle across land in search of another body of water. They are covered in mucus which protects the fish when out of the water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_catfish

Answer 4

You *COULD* try googling it, to see if there's evidence of them....