THE HABITS
FISHES
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makes agood or a bad spaWningÏ year is still a matter of
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shes thatare constantly wandering about chas’e
their food and are themselves
are mostly
esh-eaterS;
Some of them" are exceedigly voracious :and
seem to have a very elastic stomach.
The deep—Sea
stomids
(Fig.
allies:
'Eels, and others “can
indeed extend their
their body and are
thus able:toetake in
their oWn kind——
larger tha-n =themSélveS. Some few—not only the Sharks—=
take. a pleasure
killing1far' more than they can eat at a
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time, and one species cOmbines this hist with ”a morbid
appetite to such an
that it is said to ejéct the contents
Wheiifull in order to go on With its feeding.
tim‘eto taste Or chew their food,though
seem todo So,;and more.thantwo thousand
years
of - Searus= Was
the ;onlyfsh that ff_ cheWed theÏ—cud.’
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As
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*di'SappeàrSpossible; Ïpr0bably to prevent riŸalS
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in*Spme casa—,
Elhbtk…thE…h……h
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its Capter.
And live"'seëfhaveæfbjeèn taken1theStomaChs
of others.
It is on record,
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on occasion bored its way through the lihiñg of the sto1ächand Sometimes perhaps escaped in this way ; and in other
cases remained embedded in the tissues. Ï
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Some of these active shes have taken to aless strenu6us
mode of hunting ai1d‘feed‘on the smallerànirhals—of the sea,
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either altogether or at times.—'
from
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Basking Shark does remarkably
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organisms'(plankton)_.
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and the Herring and S_alrhonarettheir
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