. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. m ?=:i^ From a Photograph by J. Tiirner-Tarner reproduced in The Giant Fisli of Florida ^Peanou) WHIP out of the sea to shake off suckers which fasten themselves on to tlie fish. heard at short and even intervals to proceed from the larger vase on a side tablethat contained the greater number of the specimens, and these sounds were at onceresponded to in a similar manner from the receptacle close at hand. Surprise andadmiration were intense on discovering that the snappings proceeded from the mouthsof the puny an
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. m ?=:i^ From a Photograph by J. Tiirner-Tarner reproduced in The Giant Fisli of Florida ^Peanou) WHIP out of the sea to shake off suckers which fasten themselves on to tlie fish. heard at short and even intervals to proceed from the larger vase on a side tablethat contained the greater number of the specimens, and these sounds were at onceresponded to in a similar manner from the receptacle close at hand. Surprise andadmiration were intense on discovering that the snappings proceeded from the mouthsof the puny and presumably dumb little fish. A close inspection elicited the fact thatthe sound was produced by consecutive muscular contractions and sudden expansionsof the fishes lower jaw. The phenomenon, and its cause once recognised, was verifiedby repetitions on several subsequent occasions. The Sea Horse, in common with the Gurnard, presents multiple points of interest,and on this occasion in a widely divergent direction. It is in association with the SeaHorse and its a
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