. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. directs his operations solely from this selfish ; I believe that Dr. Meyer's oi)inion, as e.\presse(l in his last worils, is perfectly correct. The Pilot obtains a great part of his food directly from the shark, in feeding on the parasite crustaceans with which sharks and other large fish are infested, and on the smaller pieces of flesh which are left unnoticed by the shark when it tears
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. directs his operations solely from this selfish ; I believe that Dr. Meyer's oi)inion, as e.\presse(l in his last worils, is perfectly correct. The Pilot obtains a great part of his food directly from the shark, in feeding on the parasite crustaceans with which sharks and other large fish are infested, and on the smaller pieces of flesh which are left unnoticed by the shark when it tears its prey. The Pilot, also, being a small fish, obtains greater security when in company of a shark, which would keep at a distance all other fishes of prey that would be likely to prove dangerous to the Pilot. Therefore, in accompanying the shark, the Pilot is led by the same instinct which makes it follow a ship. With regard to the statement that the Pilot itself is never attacked by the shark, all observers agree as to its truth ; but this may be accounted for in the saa^e way as the imi)unity of the swallow from the hawk, the Pilot-fish being to nimble for the unwieldy shark. I quote at length the remarks of my frientl, Dr. Francis Day: " This fish has long been celebrated as the companion and guide of sharks, as it was formerly said to be of whales, and also the friend, or at least close attendant, on shijjs while sailing over the ocean. Although some consider the pilot-fish to be the friend of the shark, others have thought such open to suspicion, while Cuvier has even suggested down- right enmity or rather treachery in its actions. M. Geoffrey tells how two of these fishes were observed to lead a shark up to a baited hook which by their im])ortunities they induced him to gorge. Or as Cuvier i)ithily \n\ts it, that this tale if true should occasion them to be termed "deceivers" rather than "; Capt. Richards once observed upon a blue shark
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