Fish “Talks” on Radio (Oct, 1940)
Fish “Talks” on Radio
A talking catfish startled listeners to a recent broadcast from a New York City radio station. When removed from his tank in the Staten Island, N. Y., zoo, the conversational catfish, a native of the Amazon region of South America, made curious sounds into the studio microphone as part of a natural-history program.
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hehe…
I wish there was audio to go with this, I’d love to hear what the Fish had to say…
Great site BTW…
waaaterrrr…….
sorry, the fish was from South America so that would be:
“aaaaaaguaaaaaa…”
I can’t identify the fish, though I suspect it is saying somthing a bit like this:
http://www.csupomona.ed…
Mine sound like this:
http://www.csupomona.ed…
The latter does translate, but not into language I’d care to use in a public forum.