. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. that Pizonyx has like food habits. And now we shall see how this brilliant conjecture was a few years later to become an established fact. Bin't in January, 1932, visited Isla Partida in the Gulf and found Pizonyx bats abundant under rocks. Since the bats are nocturnal feeders and since their food and feeding: habits were the particular matters to be investigated, specimens were collected in the morning. The bats came out to feed too
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. that Pizonyx has like food habits. And now we shall see how this brilliant conjecture was a few years later to become an established fact. Bin't in January, 1932, visited Isla Partida in the Gulf and found Pizonyx bats abundant under rocks. Since the bats are nocturnal feeders and since their food and feeding: habits were the particular matters to be investigated, specimens were collected in the morning. The bats came out to feed too late in the evening and returned too early in the morning for any observation to be made on their fishing habits. But the stomachs of those collected were dissected and "were found to be distended with finely chewed fish ; Thus were confirmed the conclusions of Miller and Allen. The fish scales were ascertained to be those of a sardine found in vast schools in these waters. Much bat guano was found in the crevices in the rocks where the bats lived. '' Upon examination, the guano proved to be made up entirely of fish remains, chiefly scales with an occasional small fish ; Burt confessed that their method of catching the sardiiies was a mystery to him but he thought that "the specialized claws aid the animals in procuring their ; Nor is it known to this day how the fish are taken, and since these bats are thought to go out to fish late in the evening and to return early in the morning, the mystery is not likely to be solved soon. However, Noctilio, the Caribbean fishing bat, has been seen at Monos Island, at the southwest corner of Trinidad, fishing just before twilight. Many California exploring and fishing expeditions have gone and others will go to catch fishes and to study the wonderful fish fauna of the Gulf. If the news of the fishing habits of Pizonyx becomes widely known, perhaps someone will go to some of the islands named, anc
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