Walking catfish
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The Walking catfish, Clarias batrachus, also known as the Magur or Pla Duk Dam, is a species of air breathing catfish with the ability to \”walk\” out of the water and across land. Its \”walk\” is more like a sort of wriggling motion with snakelike movements, as well as using its pectoral fins as \”legs\”. This fish normally lives in slow-moving and often stagnant waters in ponds, swamps, streams and rivers (Mekong and Chao Phraya basins), flooded rice paddies or temporary pools which may dry up. When this happens, its \”walking\” skill comes in handy for moving to other sources of water. In Tamil it is known as keluthi or keluthu.
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