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THE MENTAL LIFE OF F ISH‘ES
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they must be of a very dièrent kind frointhose We know,
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yet the curious thing is, that few of the feèligs We recognise
in human beings are absent from shes. This has already
been indicated in the previous section “and some more
striking cases may be mentioned here. -'
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Allusion should rst of all be
the Sounds made
by shes. These are of ma”nyf’and various kinds, though
restricted, so far as we know, to a comparatively small
number of species. When caught, and even when free in
the water, some say, the Gurnards make a grunting s0rt of
noise.
One of the Osphromenidæ is…çalled the Growlmg
Gourami from the noise it makes.
great”soud_
makers are the Sci'ænoids or
have;ar0üsed
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the admiration and astoishment:
many
Theîy
occur mainly in s1ibtropical waters, from Am'eriça,Miäditeb
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rane'an and the watei"sbfAsia, and some of the romance of a
:
tropical evening enters into the descriptions of
Bending low over the side of & boat,orf better still
ear to the water,
hear fromthedepths the
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sirens, rising sometires into the tones _Of an orga£1 ;50}‘
sinking to the low
has been. cOmparedto the rmgmg
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roll
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guided_ to the whereabouts' of; the »Eäglel FIShOIMB—lgœ Î" ,”
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(sciæna1aqua)
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