What would you think if you saw a fish walking? Would you look again i you saw a fish climbing a tree? There is a fish that does b of these things. It is called the tree-climbing fish. It is believed that a traveler to India first told about the tree-climbing fish. The fish was h up in a tree. What was the fish doing in that tree? How did it get there? The traveler ta bird might have put it there.
The next day the traveler saw a fish come out of the w. It was hard to believe, but up the road went the fish. It used its fins (鱼鳍) and tail to pull i along. It stopped to eat some worms. After the fish ate, it walked slowly over to a tree. Up, up it c. When it got high up in the tree, it took a rest.
The traveler was s to see these things and told other people about the tree-climbing fish. The people wanted to know w this fish looked like. He explained the one he saw was dark brown and about one foot long.
People can f the tree-climbing fish not only in India but also in the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, and other places. At one time, people saw the fish in Florida, America. Because the weather there was too terrible, it was not able to live there any longer.
