Abstract
THE following extract from the remark book of Captain Robert A. Parr, of H.M.S. Lyra, may be of interest to your readers, bearing, as it does, such remarkable and trustworthy evidence of the keen sight of fish:—
“December 17th, 1867.—At noon, in lat 0° 33′ S., long. 46° 13′ E., caught an Albacore, with 28 pistol bullets in its stomach. The ship's company had been exercised at pistol practice during the forenoon.”
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M'DOUGALL, G. Keen Sight of Fish. Nature 2, 67 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002067d0
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