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Things found while looking at other things:
"...A researcher named Dr. Marie Poland Fish once auditioned every species
of North Atlantic fish she could collect and found that they thump, cluck, croak, bark, rasp, hiss, growl, swish, spit, scratch, and quack. Eels bubble and fish grunt, and striped bass utter an 'unk.' During World War II, croakers in the Chesapeake Bay made such an underwater rumpus with their rhythmic chugging that they fooled the coastal defense network into thinking it was under invasion. Some fish produce their sounds by grinding teeth or rasping spines, but most are percussionists. They make a drumming noise by contracting special muscles on each side of a resonating air bladder. Nearly all fish experience a deepening of their voice as they grow, except the trout, which remains a treble all of its life...."* Wouldn't you just know it.......a fish that never grows up, pursued by.......well, you know. :) Wolfgang *from "Notes from the Shore", by Jennifer Ackerman, Penguin Books, 1995, p.68. |
"Wolfgang" wrote in :
They make a drumming noise by contracting special muscles on each side of a resonating air bladder. My wife gets upset with me when I do that. -- Scott Reverse name to reply |
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