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Documentary, River Monsters S02E06 Rift Valley Killers
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00:01Animal Planet. Surprisingly human.
00:08In an African river, there lurks a super predator.
00:13A creature with the combined strength, speed and ferocity of all the river monsters I have ever encountered.
00:23Creating the most horrific yet perfect killing machine in all of the world's rivers.
00:30Something bit this fish right in half.
00:39My name is Jeremy Wade, biologist and extreme fisherman.
00:43I'm on the trail of this terrifying monster.
00:46And it's going to take all my skills as a fisherman to capture one.
01:00This is a story from the heart of Africa.
01:13Of a cursed beast that preys on the unsuspecting.
01:17Its powers are legendary.
01:25Its ferocity the stuff of nightmares.
01:29On the banks of an African river, a young girl is playing.
01:32She enters the water as she has done hundreds of times before.
01:44Around her waist is a belt made from shiny bottle caps.
01:55What she doesn't know is that today in this spot there lurks a monster.
01:59A creature of terrifying appearance like a relic from prehistoric times.
02:04Armed with bone crunching jaws as powerful as a hyena's, it is as secretive as a crocodile and as deadly as a great white shark.
02:20This super predator is only found in the most inaccessible part of the most inaccessible river on earth.
02:43Very few outsiders have ever heard of it.
02:46And even many of the locals have never seen it.
02:50I'm heading to central Africa, to the Congo River.
02:53To track down and catch one of these elusive killers.
02:56To see if this creature really does deserve its reputation as a supreme underwater predator.
03:04The first thing any fisherman does when he goes to a new place is to go and check out the river.
03:08But nowhere else in the world would you expect to be greeted by a sight anything at all like this.
03:15This massive river is second only in flow and area to the Amazon.
03:20Draining a huge swathe of Africa half the size of the US.
03:26That's the Congo River.
03:28To reach this point it has run nearly 3000 miles.
03:35Crossed the equator twice and narrowed from 10 miles at its widest to around a mile here.
03:42Where it splits the two war ravaged capital cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville.
03:48From here it plummets nearly 1000 feet in a series of rapids to the Atlantic Ocean, almost 300 miles away.
03:55And wherever there is a river, there are humans hardwired to seek out its fish.
04:02It's hard to believe, but many species of fish can survive fast flowing rapids like these.
04:10Weder is one of only a handful of fishermen who choose to fish these waters.
04:17I've been seeing what the local guys use here, I am slightly embarrassed using such gear which is sort of very expensive in comparison.
04:29But I actually think this will stand a chance of getting out large fish from here which the bamboo and lighter line doesn't do perhaps.
04:36The creature I am pursuing is a voracious predator.
04:45That not only attacks the small fish these fishermen are after, but will also take a chunk out of a crocodile.
04:53It's the Goliath Tigerfish.
05:04Not just one of the top predators here, but among the most ferocious freshwater predators in all the world's rivers.
05:10Goliath Tigerfish are said to grow six feet long and weigh in excess of 100 pounds.
05:24They have jaws packed with razor sharp interlocking teeth.
05:28And with their streamlined body and huge tail, they are capable of incredible bursts of speed when striking prey.
05:34Their ferocity when hunting is legendary.
05:39The fishermen tell me there's someone I should meet who has a unique way of fishing these waters.
05:48This is Philippe Tenter.
05:52He fishes these rapids with a net.
05:56That is the scale of a Goliath Tigerfish which he caught the day before yesterday.
06:00Combien de kilos?
06:0330 kilos.
06:0570 pounds here.
06:09That's a big old tigerfish.
06:10Teeth on it probably like that, you know.
06:12So, you know, just the thought of that kind of fish in this kind of water.
06:16Don't get much more extreme than that.
06:20He's about to check his nets.
06:23So you've got cable where it's going over the rocks.
06:27And here we go, here's the net coming in.
06:28As would be expected, fishing with nets in such turbulent water is not without its problems.
06:41The nets actually, it's stuck.
06:45I have no idea what he plans to do about it.
06:50But I wasn't expecting that.
06:52Jumping into these waters is nothing short of that.
06:53Jumping into these waters is nothing short of that.
06:54suicidal.
06:55.
06:56.
06:57.
07:10Jumping into these waters is nothing short of suicidal,
07:23but I realise now that this is something he must do on a daily basis.
07:28If people call me an extreme fisherman, what does that make him?
07:36I know he knows what he's doing,
07:37but to me, it just looks like the most insanely dangerous way to make a living.
07:41Swimming in this sort of super-sized washing machine-type water
07:45with a net, which is, you know, designed to catch things.
07:53All this effort, and there's actually nothing in this net,
07:56so we're just going to redeploy a fresh net.
08:07And it is just mind-boggling, you know, you just wouldn't get me doing that.
08:20That kind of fishing seems very reckless to me,
08:24but this is a country where people are forced to go to extreme lengths simply to survive.
08:30Philippe tells me about a man whose father was attacked by a goliath tigerfish,
08:34so I head to a suburb of Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo,
08:39to meet Jean-Pierre Monbele.
08:44The attack on his father
08:46is the stuff of nightmares.
08:53I'm in Africa, beside the Congo River.
09:07I've tracked down Jean-Pierre Monbele,
09:09a fisherman with a story to tell.
09:11He shows me a macabre souvenir,
09:14a scale that he took from the massive goliath tigerfish
09:17that attacked his father.
09:19It sounds like he was a specialist,
09:21a fisherman for tigerfish.
09:23He was fishing on his own.
09:33He didn't come back one day,
09:36and they are known to jump out of the water.
09:43They're very, very fast,
09:44and they have just got these wickedly sharp teeth.
09:49Sometime later, they found the boat,
09:52but with nobody in,
09:54but there was a fish in the boat.
09:55There was a fish with a hook in its mouth,
09:57and then when they looked some distance away,
09:59his body was there as well.
10:01And the thing that's particularly horrifying is it sounds like...
10:03Why can't you?
10:05There were marks on his father's throat.
10:08It sounded like he was standing up in the boat.
10:09And in a freak accident,
10:11it sounded like the fish actually jumped out of the water
10:12and bit him on the throat.
10:15Montbelli's story raises a few questions,
10:18but this is the second account of a goliath tigerfish
10:21attacking and killing a person.
10:25But to stand any chance of catching a goliath,
10:28I need to head upstream
10:29to a less densely populated part of the river.
10:32I want to see for myself
10:34if this fish really deserves its reputation
10:36as an indiscriminate killer.
10:44Success in fishing is largely about preparation,
10:47and I use the journey north to begin the groundwork.
10:51Catching the fish is very, very much
10:52about getting local intelligence,
10:54and there's no way you can get that
10:55without talking to people.
10:57And where I'm going,
10:58they're not going to speak English,
10:59and actually having left the capital,
11:01not very many are even going to speak French.
11:02So I'm brushing up on my Lingala,
11:04which is the language they speak on the Congo River.
11:07It's the trade language that everybody speaks,
11:08as well as the other little local languages.
11:12The goliath tigerfish is the ultimate freshwater predator,
11:16combining characteristics
11:17from all the other river monsters I have ever battled.
11:20It has the bloodthirsty reputation of the piranha,
11:24dentition more fearsome than the payara,
11:26the cunning of the whales' catfish,
11:29and the strength of the piraiba.
11:33Add to that the athleticism of the arapaima
11:35and a bony head to rival that of the alligator guard.
11:40And it's clear I'm going to have to draw
11:42on all of my past experiences to catch one.
11:45Basically, I've got some pretty serious treble hooks,
11:54and I'll be using this kind of wire.
11:56If I was just to use ordinary fishing line down to the hooks,
11:58you know, the goliath tigerfish
11:59has just got to chop straight through it.
12:00So I'm using this kind of stuff.
12:03It's a breaking strain of 135 pounds.
12:05Just 100 miles upstream from Brazzaville,
12:17we arrive in the section of river
12:19where the young girl was attacked and killed
12:21by a goliath tigerfish.
12:23But that was on the opposite bank
12:25in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
12:27And I don't have papers for the DRC.
12:30With the country still experiencing unrest,
12:32I can't risk going there.
12:35I stop and chat to some fishermen.
12:39They show me a tiny goliath tigerfish
12:41that they have just caught.
12:42Something which looks like a piranha,
12:44but this is just a baby goliath tigerfish.
12:46These things grow to the size of a person.
12:49This confirms that it could be a good place to start fishing.
12:57So we've got a lump of rock here, a cliff,
13:00some boulders at the bottom.
13:02The current comes down, gets deflected out into the middle.
13:07And we've got this nice eddy here.
13:09So I'm actually fishing off the back of the boat,
13:12letting the back current take it.
13:15But it's classic ambush predator country.
13:22But I've got the bait about 50 yards down from the boat.
13:26I'm feeling hopeful.
13:27You know, something could take that.
13:28Fish on! Fish on!
13:32Fish on!
13:34Fish on!
13:38Fish on!
13:39Fish on!
13:40Fish on!
13:48which is the deepest river in the world is it a the nile b the mekong or c the congo
14:05i ask which is the deepest river in the world the answer is c the congo which is 730 feet at
14:14its deepest point that's five times the height of the statue of liberty
14:18the bait went around the corner
14:42i lost sight of the float i lost sight of the float and i was just i just pulled on the line i was
14:49retrieving it and suddenly there's a wrench on the rod ah look at that that's tiger fish
15:00there we go chung chung chung and what's it you know it would have had a really good mouthful of that
15:08of the hook as well but uh failed to get a good hook up
15:14a little further up river is the village of maipili where i set up camp
15:28as night draws in i'm left to ponder my near miss i had the right spot but i had underestimated the
15:39animal it just spat out my treble hook with contempt i've been talking to some of the people here and
15:45they just say well you know just use loads of those maybe 10 on the line and something's going to hold
15:50but
15:50but it's not just a case of the more the merrier you know i think uh that might hook something fairly
15:57well possibly but that amount of metalware might actually put something off from actually coming
16:03along and uh taking the bait in the first place and the other thing is if something actually grabs hold
16:07of that the pressure that i'm exerting is divided over nine points on the other hand something like
16:17that that's a bit of a compromise i've got a big treble hook on the end and then i've got a single
16:24hook further up you know if just that single hook gets a hold i've got a lot of pressure that can
16:33actually work that into the bone of the fish's mouth the goliath's reputation as a fierce predator
16:40has immortalized it in local culture known by the congolese as mbenga it crops up again and again in
16:47tales of mutilation human death and sorcery the next day i head out with a more substantial rig i've got
16:57some artificial lures with me but everybody here tells me this predator is most likely to hit a bait
17:02that is alive okay goliath tigerfish are active hunters as well as having good eyesight they can
17:12also detect vibrations in the water which can lead them to prey
17:16but does the mbenga intentionally target people or is there another reason to explain the attacks that
17:31i've heard about
17:32i've just got this on the uh on the clicker on the ratchet and if it's actually in the full current
17:43that's just pulling that away but the fact that that is just holding nicely is that is good it's in
17:50it's in a little quiet pocket of water relatively quiet and in the current and that's that's just
17:56what i'm looking for that's just where a predator would wait without expending too much energy where
18:00there's not too much current
18:01there's not too much current
18:07right
18:25it might be off damn it's off ah
18:32oh no question about me putting pressure on that or not the float just shot under that fish was tearing
18:43away
18:50wow look at that look at that
18:55that's the kind of thing you'd expect to see if you're shark fishing this is fresh water something down
19:02there just bit this fish right in half
19:05one thing i must admit this go through my mind you know i've heard these stories of people getting attacked and just looking at the state of this fish
19:12you know it really does make you realize what a mess that would make of a person if it went for your arm or your leg or anywhere else
19:20like the girl i heard about who had a fish actually grab her torso
19:27the morning after i'm called to meet the village elders
19:34the morning after i'm called to meet the village elders
19:49they have stories to tell me about attacks by mbenga on people from the village
19:56the story that's emerging is that if you live here and you go to the water every day
20:00then you know there are certain
20:03things that you should try not to do
20:06anything that goes in the water that moves that creates a disturbance
20:11if you put a little baby in the water
20:19it seems that the sound of splashing in the water attracts them
20:23but it wasn't just the sound that attracted the mbenga to the little girl
20:26who was killed on the other side of the river
20:29they're being bitten maybe on the hands and the arms
20:31anything that shines if you've got a shiny watch or a bracelet or something like that
20:34you know there is a risk
20:36on that day she was wearing a belt around her waist
20:39made from shiny bottle caps
20:44her waist is exactly where she was attacked
20:50but it is only later when i find out where the belt had come from
20:54that i discover the heartbreaking irony of the story
21:06a fatal attack on the banks of the congo river
21:09a young girl is killed by a goliath tiger fish
21:12because she was wearing a shiny belt
21:15there is a type of traditional protection
21:20it sounds like a sort of a wristlet or an amulet
21:23and it will protect you against carnivorous fish
21:28also hippopotamus crocodiles
21:30it's sort of like a good luck charm
21:32so you know i guess these are people who actually go to the water a lot
21:36they go there to fish they go there to wash their clothes their pots and pans
21:39and you never know what's within a few feet of you
21:41so in that kind of situation you need all the protection that you can get
21:45the tragic irony of the girl's death is that the belt was given to her by her parents
21:51to ward off evil spirits
21:53but it ended up attracting the predator that killed her
21:58fred has been my boatman for the past two weeks now
22:10he has helped me understand the spirituality that swirls around this region
22:14like the currents in the river
22:18together we fish every hour
22:22along huge stretches of the river
22:26but the fish seem to have vanished
22:29it is as though they were never here
22:32i change location and i change rigs and bait
22:36but nothing
22:38i continue asking the locals and they direct me further north
22:44very few things are actually put down to accidental chance
22:48if you're bitten by a goliath tiger fish
22:50it is because the spirit of a sorcerer was in that fish
22:54and it made the fish do that
22:56you know for some reason maybe someone's put a curse on you for whatever reason
23:00and when you're actually fishing for one
23:02and not catching one
23:04you actually do start to think that
23:06you know maybe this isn't a real fish at all
23:08maybe it is
23:10purely
23:12a mythological beast
23:14a figment of the collective imagination
23:16because at the moment
23:18you know there just doesn't seem to be anything down there
23:22but i know it is more than a myth
23:24because everyone i speak to has a different story
23:28about somebody who has been attacked
23:30i just asked them if they know of any occasions of anybody having any accidents with goliath tigerfish
23:42and they were gesturing like this on the arm and on the leg
23:46and it sounds like a bit further up river
23:48you know it seems to be a fairly common occurrence here
23:50oh yes yes there are people around here who have been bitten by them
24:00after weeks of no results
24:02it's difficult to keep my focus
24:04but i have to because just one lapse in concentration
24:08and i could miss the chance when it comes
24:10this fish i mean it is
24:12it's basically a scaled up piranha
24:14and
24:16once it gets
24:18to a case of being close quarters
24:20you know i'm going to have to be very careful indeed
24:22i'm going to have to really
24:24watch my step
24:26and just take
24:28extreme care i mean that is where this fishing
24:30just has a totally
24:32other dimension
24:36part of me hoping that that float is going to disappear
24:38and the line is going to go screaming out
24:40but part of me thinking well
25:08it's going to go
25:12to the next
25:14right jump
25:15right jump
25:20watch that line on rocks
25:28it's a smaller one
25:34heeey
25:36That's what they do. That's what they do.
25:42That's three takes, no fish.
25:47Three takes, no fish.
25:51Bloody, that's so close, so close, so close, so close.
25:54This was a really lively bait.
25:56Ah, yeah.
25:59That's another fish.
26:05Ah!
26:06I'm thinking now, with hindsight, you know, if I'd had more ironmonger in there,
26:13that might have...
26:14You know, just days and days go by, nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens,
26:22and then one is there, literally just comes out of nowhere,
26:25and it's just gone in a matter of seconds.
26:28Damn!
26:28If I put this fish on, just rigged up, normally I could have had it.
26:32I could have bloody had it.
26:33If I'd had...
26:34I think I need to get another bait out there.
26:38I need to get another bait out pretty soon.
26:39I don't know if we got any good baits.
26:41That was the good bait.
26:42It is an odd thing about this fish.
26:56You know, it definitely does exist, but you can almost reach a situation, both myself and I'd imagine the local people,
27:03where you sort of forget about it, you think it doesn't exist because you don't see it, you hear about it, you don't see it, you don't see it, you don't see it, you don't see it,
27:12and then suddenly, you know, it's right in front of you and it's tearing into flesh.
27:17If I had one fish at least under my belt now, you know, I could accept this a bit sort of philosophically, but I've just been here now for so many days, I've had three chances, I've just caught nothing the whole time that I've been here.
27:33And it really does feel like a test of character, and I just feel that I'm failing at the moment.
27:43It just looks more and more like I'm just going to go home empty-handed, I haven't come all this way.
27:48And that is just so demoralizing.
27:51It's like the fish is taunting me almost, you know, the fish is, you know, just enough, just enough of a sign of a fish to get the hopes up.
28:02And then just dashed.
28:22I head back to the village, knowing that I need some more help if I'm not to go home empty-handed.
28:28The elders tell me about an old man who not only protects them from danger, but also brings them luck.
28:35Right, this is the house of the fetisher, the local witch doctor.
28:40His assistants appear first, and while we wait in silence for him to emerge,
28:58I wonder if the man held in such reverence by the villagers will have the power to change my fortunes.
29:04I'm now weeks into my trip to catch a goliath tigerfish, what the Congolese call mbenga.
29:27I've tried everything in my power, but the fish is proving unbelievably elusive.
29:33So I've decided to call on a higher level of help and pay a visit to the village witch doctor.
29:39The people of Central Africa hold fetishers like this man in very high regard.
29:47His knowledge has been passed down over generations, and his powers lie in his ability to call on the spirits.
29:55He uses substances from the forest to create the potions.
29:58I have no idea what this will involve, but for a small payment, I'm hoping he can change
30:24my fortunes what he's asking for is success in the fishing, but also protection from the fish.
30:42This is a dangerous fish, don't try and get one of these fish and actually put it back alive,
30:46but that does actually carry something of a risk.
30:48It's sort of a lucky charm, and I'm thinking that I'm going to need all the help I get in the next few days.
30:55On уже есть!
30:56What were you allowed?
30:57This girl says this.
30:59I don't know if there is any time I open for them.
31:05No make sense.
31:19Don't laugh a feeling.
31:22The ceremony finishes with the villagers thanking the spirits.
31:52I'm still not too sure what to think about the ceremony with the witch doctor.
32:00But if nothing else, Fred seems a lot happier.
32:04It's as though he knows something that I don't.
32:08We head out with a renewed sense of purpose.
32:15Fred explains to me in more detail exactly what the witch doctor said.
32:19He has consulted a spirit of a dead fisherman.
32:28And he has said that the place to catch the fish is to come all the way up here from the village and then work down.
32:39I've been here for three weeks now, and I've had three hits, but still nothing tangible to show for all my efforts.
32:49But he just, don't work.
33:07Fish on!
33:10Fred, the net!
33:11The net!
33:19Okay, I've just got to keep pressure from above because there's rocks.
33:23And I've got to...
33:32It's going to jump, it's going to jump.
33:37That's the float, it's going to see the fish very soon.
33:39There it is, that's a good fish! Look at that!
33:45The net, the net, the net!
33:49Careful, Fred, careful, careful, careful!
33:56Right, we want to be very careful now.
34:03The net, we want to get the head in.
34:05We want to get the head in.
34:07La tête, la tête!
34:10Oh!
34:11Segure le poisson!
34:13Oh!
34:15I got it!
34:19We got the fish, we got the fish!
34:20All we've got to worry about now, is it biting its way out?
34:27At last, I've got my goliath tigerfish.
34:31Right now, just a moment.
34:32Is there anything in this or not?
34:33I put it in this morning, it was under my pillow.
34:35Like the fetisher said, it was under my pillow.
34:37Today, I took it with me fishing.
34:39Now I want to do something that fishermen never do when they catch one of these monsters.
34:41Have a look at it, then release it alive, back into the river.
34:43The mouth is going, the fish is breathing, that's good.
34:46And the gills are going, that's good.
34:48This water is nicely aerated, that's a good thing as well.
34:51Ah, those teeth!
35:06That will just take lumps out of other fish, it will take lumps out of crocodiles even,
35:12and there are stories well documented about taking lumps out of people.
35:16well-documented about taking lumps out of people.
35:20Wow, there we go.
35:23Ooh, what a fresh water monster this thing is.
35:30What I'm looking at here is the ultimate piranha.
35:35Those teeth, just like a piranha's, triangular, sharp blades down the side,
35:39and they interlock. They interlock almost like scissors.
35:42They will just cut a lump out.
35:44Two big differences, though.
35:45One is piranhas hunt in packs.
35:48This is a solitary hunter, and the other thing is the side.
35:52People who think that piranhas are scary, if they saw one of these things,
35:56I think their nightmares might be populated by a slightly different animal.
36:03One sort of diabolical, anatomical detail on this fish
36:07is that it hasn't just got one hinge on its jaw, it's got a double hinge.
36:12It's got one hinge here, it's got another hinge there,
36:17which enables it to open that jaw much, much wider.
36:21So it can almost open like that and just come straight in
36:23and take a really huge bite out of its prey.
36:27It's just a murderous animal, this thing.
36:33This fish may look inactive now, but once it's revived a bit,
36:38there's a danger it could slice me at any moment.
36:40I actually don't want to let it go too soon,
36:45even though there's a risk to me if I stay in the water too long beside it.
36:51But what I don't want is for this fish to swim into the powerful water
36:54and then just not be able to hold itself upright.
36:56It will just roll belly up and probably get sort of battered on some of these rocks here.
37:01So I want it to be completely recovered before it goes.
37:05You know, I want it to be able to swim off, keeping itself vertical, unaided.
37:09We're having a little bit of a discussion here
37:25because Fred thought that we were going to take it back to the village for everyone to eat.
37:31And I must admit that is quite a nice idea.
37:36He tells me this fish has been given to us by gold.
37:39He said even for the, you know, the fetisher who gave me the charm,
37:44you know, told me I'd have success in the fishing,
37:46you know, send him a piece of the meat.
37:48It's not just our village, it's the people over the river who've been helping.
37:51You know, it would be, it would make everybody happy.
37:56But it wouldn't, you know, it wouldn't make me happy.
37:57Well, it would in one way, but it would make me more happy to put this back.
38:03It's going to upset him as well if he sees this swim away.
38:06I'm trying to explain. The important thing for me is to see it.
38:09And not to kill it.
38:10I think it's very, you know, it's very important that animals that we find frightening in appearance,
38:17you know, that we try and understand them.
38:18We don't just hack them to pieces and kill them and then look at the dead body.
38:22I mean, I want to look at this thing alive and then see it swim off.
38:28If the fish dies, because it has really, you know, exhausted itself fighting against me
38:34and in that very wild, rocky water.
38:36If the fish dies, fine. We'll take it back for everyone to eat.
38:39If it doesn't, if it recovers, if it can support itself, I'm going to let it go.
38:43So we now just wait and see.
38:49Looking now at some of the marks on its head,
38:52I think it must have bashed itself on the rocks while fighting with me.
38:55It's possible that it might die.
39:04But all I want to do is give it the best chance possible.
39:12To me, the Mbenga ranks as one of the most difficult fish I have ever caught.
39:16But I don't think it deserves its reputation as an indiscriminate killer.
39:21Each attack involves splashes or bright, shiny objects in the water,
39:25which, to a goliath tigerfish, resembles its normal food, other fish.
39:29And it responds in the only way that it knows.
39:34After an hour, the decision is taken from me
39:37as I feel the life slipping away from this monster.
39:42You know, it's just, it's not going to make it.
39:44So, I mean, the good thing is,
39:47although the fish has died, you know, it won't be going to waste.
40:01To the people of the Congo, the Mbenga is much more than just a fish.
40:08It is a spirit that pervades their folklore.
40:11Yet many people here, I now realise,
40:13have never seen this monster in the flesh.
40:18I begin to suspect that for Fred,
40:21returning this fish would have meant much more than just losing a meal.
40:30Bringing this fish out of the shadows into the light of day
40:33has been a monumental task.
40:35It's easy to tell myself now
40:37that my success was down to my persistence.
40:40But I still wonder how much was down to factors
40:42outside my control or understanding.
40:46No, no, n'ai pas dit.
40:47There's...
40:47OK.
40:48Oh, yeah.
40:49Yeah.
40:51OK.
40:52Oh!
40:53Second, honey.
41:07Ho, ho!
41:08Ho, ho!
41:08Ho, ho, ho!
41:09Ho, ho!
41:09Ho!
41:10Ho, ho!
41:10Ho, ho!
41:11Ho, ho!
41:11Ho, ho!
41:12Ho, ho!
41:12Ho, ho!
41:14Ho, ho!
41:14It's not going to be a moment to be a moment´s
41:15It's never good when a fish dies, but when it gets that kind of reaction,
41:40when you bring it in, that's a big meal for lots of people.
41:43That's about 200 and odd people in this village, I think they're all going to have a piece
41:46of that.
41:47A lot of these people actually as well, they won't have seen a fish like that, or certainly
41:50not a good sized one.
41:51They've heard about it, it is a legend, but they don't see them very often, so if a fish
41:56has to die or a fish does die, at least a reaction like that is some sort of compensation.
42:01It's not the ending that I wanted, but it is fitting in a way.
42:13Want to know how to catch a river monster of your own?
42:19I'll show you how at animalplanet.com forward slash river monsters.
42:23So.
42:25So.
42:26So.
42:27So.
42:28So.
42:28So.
42:28So.
42:29So.
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