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THE BIOLOGY OF FISHES
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Many other shes besides the Eel leave the water and
wander about overland, some from necessity, others from
choice.
A Pike when trapped in a drying—up pool has been
known to wriggle out and cross oVer to a stream near by.
The small Cyprinodonts of Mexico and Central America
are said to hop about on land like eas until they reach
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Water again. The Climbing Perch (Anabas), whose abilities
_have erroneously been called in question by sceptics, has
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often been observed making its way from drying—up pools
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to
other water basins.
Bolau has described how some
specimens kept in the Zoological Gardens at Hamburg
persistently leapt out of a small tank, over a partition two- » ’ *’=
feet high, and scrambled about on thesand of the reptile
house.;aI—na
they behaved better, but they, Ï
always leapt out of the small one—evidently they objected
to narrowing restrictions and preferred a wide perspective.: - “
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The mud-Springing Gobies -(Periophthalmus) of the
tropical waters of Africa, Asia, and Australia, prefer to seek
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their food out of the water. , They live like frogs on marshy
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or muddÿ_ground among the, mangrove swamps oralo'ng:
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the: shore :betWeen
marks; - SOmetimes, with the-aid=of
their tail—and ventralns, and cleVer .bending of the (body,:
they clamber up -stems and slide along.branches; When
discovered or disturbed they dropgback—from the branches,—_“ Îf
several:feet above, into the
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remain—out of
for-hourstogethen ——Hickson, Who
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studiedthe habits of these s_hes:ihCele_bes,
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