FISHES AND THE WEB OF LIFE
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to storms or simply to the fact that a large percentage is
never fertilised. But the young fry as they sink down to
the bottom or play about near the surface are exposed to
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the attacks of one another, jelly—shes, Sagittæ,’
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or even the'Herring,if they should be in the neighbourhoôd.
Whatever may be thought of this ceaseless pursuit
destruction, and it is difcult to refrain from Calling, it a
struggle ,‘for
must remember that shés, like
ourselVeS, must eat; to live… HOW the balance of nature
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one cannot imagine…
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that the pursuit—'Ïhas fstréngtheed the musdèland
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the nsof the Flying Fishès—'
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But we
cahot*deduœ 'fror this that the strugglé alOne has
the Species
are:
It is still as true now as of old,ï
that
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the race is “not to the swift, nor the battle” to
strong.”
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owe-‘their surviVal not to any particular -
great vitality, their ability to keep.
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