"Big-headed fish" that climbs trees to lay eggs

In Tengchong, Yunnan, there is a beautiful and mysterious Binlang River. Both sides of the bank are endless primitive jungles. A strange fish lives in the river. The fish is named "big-headed fish" because its head is particularly large. Some people also see that its head is flat and its chest is wide and flat, so it is often stuck in the crevices of rocks at the bottom of the river. It is also called: stone flat fish, stone stick, tiger Fish, thornhead, etc.

Whenever the rainy season comes at the turn of spring and summer, the river rises and covers the jungles on both sides. At this time, the bighead fish will climb up the tree trunks from the water and hang on the trunks and branches, like strings of dark green large peppers. . At this time, fishermen will quietly approach, put a net under the tree, and then beat the branches with a long bamboo pole. The shaking of the branches will cause the fish to fall into the net one after another.

Bighead fish is the general name for the fish of the genus Streptophorus in the order Siluriformes and the family Elvisidae. The chest of this type of fish is wide and flat, forming a sucker. They rely on the sucker to attach their bodies to rocks or trees, and can move their bodies left and right, up and down. In order to protect the next generation from being washed away by flash floods, they climb trees to lay eggs. As the temperature gradually rises and the river water continues to rise, the eggs of the bighead fish hatch into small larvae and fall into the river.

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