. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. ,and chubs, with smooth scales, soft fins, and soft bodies,and the flesh full of small bones. These little fish are verynumerous in species, some kinds swarming in all freshwater in America, Europe, and Asia. They usually swimin the open water, the prey of every carnivorous fish, mak-ing up by their fecundity or ability to produce young ingreat numbers and their insignificance for their lack ofdefensive armature. In some species the male is adornedin the spring with bright pigment—red, black, blue, ormilk-white. In
. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. ,and chubs, with smooth scales, soft fins, and soft bodies,and the flesh full of small bones. These little fish are verynumerous in species, some kinds swarming in all freshwater in America, Europe, and Asia. They usually swimin the open water, the prey of every carnivorous fish, mak-ing up by their fecundity or ability to produce young ingreat numbers and their insignificance for their lack ofdefensive armature. In some species the male is adornedin the spring with bright pigment—red, black, blue, ormilk-white. In some cases, too, it has bony warts or horns 196 THE ANIMALS AND MAN on its head or body. Such forms are known to the boysas horned dace. Most interesting to the angler are the members of thesalmon and trout family (fig. 96), because they are gamy,beautiful, excellent as food, and above all perhaps, becausethey live in the swiftest and clearest waters in the mostcharming forests. The salmon live in the ocean most oftheir lives, but ascend the rivers from the sea to deposit.
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