. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. *, „. PIRAYA.—Serrosalmo piraya. CTinning, which has earned for the fish the name of Fox of the waters. As the number of fish is so great, and our space so small, it \d\\ be needful to compress the descriptions as much as possible, and to omit everything that does not bear directly on the subject. The Carp is found both in rivers and lakes, and in some places, among which the palaces of France may be mentioned, will often grow to an enormous size, and become absurdly tame, crowding to th
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. *, „. PIRAYA.—Serrosalmo piraya. CTinning, which has earned for the fish the name of Fox of the waters. As the number of fish is so great, and our space so small, it \d\\ be needful to compress the descriptions as much as possible, and to omit everything that does not bear directly on the subject. The Carp is found both in rivers and lakes, and in some places, among which the palaces of France may be mentioned, will often grow to an enormous size, and become absurdly tame, crowding to the bank on the least encouragement, and poking their great snouts out of the water in anxious expectation of the desired food. It is most curious to watch these great creatures swimming lazily along, and to see how com})letely they have lost the inherent dread of man by the exendse of their reasoning powers, whicli tell them that the once-feared biped on the bank will do them no harm, but, in all probability, will be the means of indulging their appetite wdth favorite food. The Carp is one of the fish that retains its life for a lengthened period even when removed from the water; and if carefully packed in wet moss so as to allow a free circulation of air, will survive even for weeks. Anglers never seem sure of the Carj)—taking plenty on one day. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888; Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer; Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history; National Zoological Park (U. S. ), former owner. DSI. New York : Selmar Hess
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