Le monde du silure

A dark-coloured, reptilian-looking creature with a huge mouth, who loves the deep and dark waters of the rivers where it hunts in the twilight… If we think about it, it is difficult to imagine a more mysterious animal, able to give birth to legends, than the bullhead. With a height of up to 2.74 m and exceeding a hundred kilos, It is also a colossus in our fresh waters, that's why it's often painted as the ogre or the river monster, although the reality of this giant fish is very different from what is generally read about it. The research in these recent years has considerably increased our knowledge and revealed the inaccuracies of what was previously known about this strange animal. We thought it was nocturnal, we discover it hunting the pigeon under the midday sun in 10 cm of water. We saw it as a lonely fish, it is gregarious and even talkative! We considered it as a foreigner while even before the "birth" of the human race, it was swimming in the waters of the Rhone basin. With her mischievous little eyes and her mouth that seems continually split with a large smile, the bullhead is nothing like a monster… But that doesn’t mean he’s finished talking about him.