All our grandparents, as children, walked, at least once, on the banks of the Bisatto. Yet none of them will ever tell you, perhaps because they have never seen it but much more likely because they did not have the courage, that they came across that strange creature that would have populated the waters of our canal for a very long time: the  Nebirullus Euganeus Superior  , commonly known as  Nebirullo.

Ancient texts and mysteriously disappeared manuscripts define the creature as “a  Sgrunfide of the Caenolestid family of the Bettongid genus”  , although among the Venetians it was called “sasinagambari” because of the food it was very fond of that it found without difficulty in the waters of the canals it chose as its home. The Nebirullo dug deep burrows (up to 180 cm) in the banks and covered them with reeds and down, so that these could accommodate  its eggs.  This strange animal, part duck and part toad,  seems to have almost become extinct  because of weasels (main predators of the Nebirulli) and the difficult reproduction system that would have caused, at each birth, the death of the female specimen. Although many still find it hard to believe that a creature like this could exist (or still can, who knows?), some testimonies, together with the  fur that was found and analyzed by scientists,  would have allowed us to give a face to our animal and would have certified its existence. Does the Nebirullo really exist? Is it big, ferocious or dangerous? Could you have seen it while jogging in the evening?  WaterCity is about to give you all the answers…