Have you ever taken a shark for a walk? Tied a sea cow to a tree? Caught a porpoise by its tail? Most people prefer less strenuous occupations, but Captain William B. Gray, Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Miami Seaquarium, finds that these jobs are all in a day's work. Also in a day's work are the supervision of the care and feeding of the fish and increasing his knowledge of their habits and quirks. The white-spotted leopard ray, which wounds its enemy with barbed stingers and poisonous slime; the cunning pufferfish, which inflates itself so that it cannot be taken into another fish's mouth; the rough-skinned filefish, whose hide is used by sailors as sandpaper and for striking matches-these are some of the specimens Captain Gray encounters in his daily rounds.
TERMÉSZETTUDOMÁNY / Biológia kategória termékei
William B. Gray: Creatures of the Sea
Kiadás:
New York, 1960
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Kategóriák:
Biológia Halászat-horgászat Zoológia Angol nyelv
Nyelv:
Angol
Terjedelem:
216 p.
Kötésmód:
egészvászon