Goonch Catfish, like its catfish relatives, can grow to a very large size and weight. However, unlike other catfish, this river monster only lives in the Great Kali River between India and Nepal, where the river water is often used to dispose of the bodies after the Indian cremation ceremony. It is reasonable to say that the tank duck-billed fish has been devouring this semi-cooked human corpse after cremation, and perhaps this food has helped the tank duck-billed fish-or at least some members of this species-grow to an unusually large size. People imagine that this habit may make the tank duckbill like human flesh, thus intensifying people's fear that the tank duckbill will attack the living.