Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 468
e to infer that it is not a voracious fish ofprey. It is also supposed from the large, pouch-like lower jaw and interlocking teeth that it feedson small water animals in much the same manneras does the whalebone whale; that is, by strainingthe small animals upon which it feeds out from aquantity of… … a stone in the root of a tree. root shown in the picture, is not unusual, thoughthe example is particularly striking. The waythis strange association came about was probablyby the flexible rootlets of a tree bending aroundthe stone encountered by them in the earth asthey made their slow growth…
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