| Show odd fish wear no glasses Glass esp but they are equipped with bifocal seeing ability the shedd aquarium chicago has no fish that wear glasses bui but recently it did the next best thing it got a shipment of fish with four eyes an and d bifocal seeing ability these fish are only six inches long said director W H chute chuie but they are of unusual interest because of their remarkable eyes each eye is divided horizontally into two sections the upper section projecting above the fishs fichs head like the eyes of a frog is adapted for vision in the air this ginakes it almost impossible ae for the fish to get a fit in hats but is handy for seeing birds of prey then there is another set of eyes the lower ones they are quite different in appearance and are short sighted for vision in the water or r looking at other fish what its like to have tour four eyes no one pretends to know but mr chute ventures a guess the et ef feet he says p probably is like a pair of bifocal glasses except that the fish uses both near and distant vision at the same time there is one drawback the four eyed fish is as these specimens are called swims exactly on the water li liner with one pair of eyes looking up and one pair peering down the result is that the fish gets his upper eyes dry and thi this s said mr chute interferes with clear vision there is only one way out and the fish thought of that years ago he ducks himself even scientists think it is pretty strange these tour four view fish who look at the sky and the water all at once but in their new tanks at the sheddan Shedd barium the fish can feast their four eyes on the name science has given them the card reads and it does two things jt it distinguishes them at once from other |
