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Show "Protection" Given Fish Is Open to Question So poisonous Is a gloheflsh In Hawaii Ha-waii that It Is called the dcathflsh. Poisonous flesh does not save the lives of Individuals, hut It Is believed to be a sort of protection of the species, brought about by the poisoning of enemies, en-emies, a theory that may seem to be taking utilitarian reasoning somewhat too fur. On the other hand, spines on globettshes' bodies may have been developed de-veloped for protection. Doubt may arise again when gloheflshes' Instinct to swallow air is explained on the supposition sup-position that It Is an additional safeguard safe-guard agalnRt enemies. The fact remains re-mains that when a gloheflsh Is seriously serious-ly disturbed. It rises to the surface, gulps air Into a capacious bag, and floats on the surface, stomach upward. If this devlce'tyroteets a globeflsh from other fishes, It renders it more liable to be taken by men. |