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Show How Sawfish Uses Its Saw. More energetic than any other slmrkrf are ihe sawfish, whose snouts are prolonged into a broad blade of cartilage, which Is horizontal when the fish is swimming In a normal position posi-tion nnd has both Its edges set with slightly curved teeth about an Inch apart. The end of this formidable looking weapon Is blunt nnd comparatively compara-tively soft, so that It Is qulto Incapable Incapa-ble of the feats popularly attributed to it of piercing whales' bodies, ships' timbers, etc. It attacks other fish by a swift .lateral thrust of the saw beneath be-neath them. Then it feeds upon the soft cntralls.whlch are apparently the only food It can eat from the peculiar shapo of its mouth. It has an enormous enor-mous number of small teeth, sometimes some-times as many as GO rows in one Individual, Indi-vidual, but they are evidently unfit for the rough duties required of their teeth by .the garbage-eating members of the family. Fish Lore. |
