Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 453
fish will slip out, or apparently tumble out,of his home of bubbles, and circle away, finallyfalling to the bottom of the aquarium. Then oneof the parents, in serious alarm at what has hap-pened to the youngster, swims quickly to the bot-tom, draws the little one into its mouth, swimsback to the… … shocks similar in effect to that produced by agalvanic battery. The shocks delivered by thesecreatures are very startling, and barefoot fisher-men have been known to be knocked down byaccidentally stepping on them in shallow water. The specimen here pictured was captured inthe Gulf of Mexico near…
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