well, pretty much all catfish come equipped with venomous spines, but owl grip strength is so insane that a large owl can literally break any bone in your body with its feet so I think the edge goes to the owls on this one
I would like to politely remind Dr. Wunjy that you really have to go out of your way to get talon’d by an owl and there are no extant members of the owl family that are large enough to consider humans viable prey, but there are 4-6 species of catfish that grow large enough to eat live humans at two that have been officially documented as doing so
Exhibit A: The Kal River Goonch Catfish, which has developed a taste of water buffalo calves and small humans.
Exhibit B: Th Piraiba, which lives in the Amazon River and occupies nearly the same ecological niche in the river as the great white does in the ocean:
The catfish family also has the Candiru, which by comparison looks positively laughable:
-Except that it’s a catfish that’s learned how to be a leech and is a flesh-eating parasite that is infamously attracted to the smell of urine, and there has been more than one incident of them swimming up a man’s urethra!
Unless you know of an ass-burrowing owl, the catfish family is definitely much, much scarier.
Gallus I come here for funny stories, and then you give me things like this and I am TERRIFIED.
WELL TOO BAD BECAUSE I’VE GOT MORE HORRIBLE MEMBERS OF THE CATFISH FAMILY TO SHARE WITH YOU!
This friend of ours is the Wels Catfish, native to Dreary Old England, but it’s been introduced to parts of Europe where they have devastated the local ecology by eating LITERALLY EVERYTHING and forming a 100% Wels-catfish-cannibalism based food chain in it’s place, like a reservoir in Italy, where this 256lb specimen was caught
There was a rumor of a Wels caught that had the remains of a Nazi inside it, but unfortunately it was a Hoax. Wels only live to be about 60 years old in captivity and 20 in the wild, and while a Wels is certainly has no problem eating any carrion if may swim across, they have never showed an interest in eating live humans. …They do attack live humans who swim too close to their nests. Watch where you go swimming in Europe in springtime.
The Electric Catfish of north Africa is capable of producing a 400 volt shock, more than enough to stun a healthy human and kill the old or infirm.
There’s a popularly circulated ‘fact’ that the ancient Egyptians used the shocks as a treatment for arthritis but I haven’t been able to find a good source on that, so tell me if you know something about that. What I can verify is that the electric catfish is apparently a somewhat popular choice of aquarium fish for 'experienced’ aquarists, and if hand-raised from a young age, can be taught to be hand-fed and do tricks for treats. It can also decide to shock the shit out of it’s keeper for shits and giggles and send them to the hospital or morgue.
Now, while all catfish have spines on their dorsal and pectoral fins, only about half of catfish (1,600 species) have venom glands, and I couldn’t find any records of someone being *poisoned* by a catfish. I did find records of one man who was killed by the dorsal spine of a catfish: In 2004, a man fishing in the Amazon landed a Redtail Catfish, and while wrestling it into the boat, got stabbed by it’s dorsal spine and died. See, while the Redtail isn’t a venomous species of catfish-
-They are VERY LARGE.
That first blunted prong of the Dorsal fin under the human’s hand is a flesh-covered 5-inch dagger, which the unfortunate man took at exactly the wrong angle, and suffered a cardiac puncture.
I’m only just realizing thst the “Catnip” is likely planted. Look st the movement of the cops hand in the second gif. Looks more like he’s passing it from hand to hand
In the second gifset you can even see the bag underneath the armour so yeah its v much planted
You gotta understand that some people never really grow. They never learn their lesson. They never recognise their mistakes, they never acknowledge their faults, they never admit they were in the wrong. You will never receive an apology from them, and you will never see their behaviour change.
So recently, I’ve been noticing a lot more people starting to call Disney out on their bullshit, which is really awesome because Goddamn have they just gotten worse and worse as time goes on, but there’s one things I’ve started to notice about these posts that I think warrants a really important addition that needs to be made to all future callouts.
You see in a lot of these cases the consensus is “Fuck Disney” and while that’s very true, in reality your kinda being extremely broad here, as the company is broken up into at least 8 different studios, split into different divisions like ones for the theme parks and resorts, one for the cruise line etc, and has hundreds of thousands of employees under its belt. A lot of times when companies like Amazon and Tesla are called out, people are also making sure to specifically calling out their CEOs and founders, in this case Bezos and Musk, and making it very clear that they are also very much so in the wrong here, rightfully so placing the responsibility onto them.
But I rarely ever see this happen with Disney, and I thinks it’s important we start to change that a bit. Right now Disney as a whole is being helmed by two men, Bob Iger and Bob Chapek, as even though Chapek has officially been named the CEO and Iger was on his way out, he decided to step back into the role for a bit due to the pandemic, so he’s still very much at fault for a lot of this as well. You might know Iger as the man responsible for buying up, well, pretty much every hot ticket property Disney has right now including Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel and as well as plenty of other shady deals. He’s even made it clear that’s he looking to take up a Presidential bid sometime in the next few years which is just Absolutely Yikes. Chapek on the other hand, is so notorious that even die-hard Disney fans more often then not will say they despise him, mainly due to his massive budget cuts in the theme parks that have not only dulled down the overall experience, but more importantly have resulted in thousands of cast members, even before the pandemic, being laid off because he didn’t see them as being “necessary”. His most common nickname is Lex Luther for a reason. And what’s worst, while they both agreed to cutting off their salaries completely at the start of the pandemic, they’ve since gone back to being paid-in full, and they’re still laying off massive amounts of their workers while their parks are being reopened, which I can tell you from personal experience is exactly what Chapek wanted all along.
There’s plenty more about these two guys that I could talk about, but the point here is it’s time to put faces and names to a lot of the shit the company has being trying to get away with over the years, and I wanna keep this post relatively short. So, just please remember, make sure whenever you say “Fuck Disney” that you also make sure to say “Fuck Bob Iger” and “Fuck Bob Chapek”. Make their names just as known as Bezos and Musk for all the wrong reasons, and maybe we can stop another fucking millionaire from having one of the highest seats in the US government.
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