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Fishing Bat & Batting Fish Video Belize's fishing bats may catch and eat up to 30 fish in one night—but sometimes it may be a fish that catches a bat! Welcome to the National Geographic video player.Video Sections

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Fish >> Bony Fish - The lives of herring, salmon, trout, and other well-known fish are brought to live in thrilling and surprising videos.
- Animal Summer Games-Wrestling - These contestants battle it out, for dominance, for territory, and of course, for their mates.
- Chao Phraya Catfish - The chao phraya catfish, also known as the dog-eating catfish, can grow up to 9 feet long. This species is now extremely rare in the wild and in urgent need of study to assess its conservation status.
- Dusky Dolphins Corral Anchovies - Even if you don't have a taste for anchovies, you'll be amazed at how these dusky dolphins rustle a mass of them up from the deep.
- Fishing Bat & Batting Fish - Belize's fishing bats may catch and eat up to 30 fish in one night—but sometimes it may be a fish that catches a bat!
- Giant Freshwater Stingray - Unknown to science until 1990, the giant freshwater stingray is an elusive creature that inhabits deep rivers in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and northern Australia.
- Herring Flatulence - Herring have a secret, and funny, way of communicating with each other.
- Herring Hazards - Wild Chronicles dives into a big fish story. While the fish themselves may not be large in size, a herring's importance as a source of food in the ocean is bigger than people know.
- Mekong Giant Catfish - One of the largest fish in the world, the Mekong giant catfish grows to 10 feet and 650 pounds. Despite its size, it is a gentle giant that survives on a diet of plant matter and algae.
- River Catfish Release - Biologist Zeb Hogan and his team have tagged over 3,000 river catfish individuals to learn more about their behavior.
- Sargassum Fish - The sargassum fish can camouflage itself to look exactly like a sargassum plant and ambush unsuspecting prey with deadly ease.
- Sockeye Salmon - Salmon swim upstream to the waters where they were born for the final race of their lives.
- Trout Spawning - Trout in Yellowstone National Park enter into a mating frenzy.
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