FIGHT IN AN AQUARIUM.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 145, 19 November 1874, Page 3

FIGHT IN AN AQUARIUM.

“The inhabitants of Havre,” observes the Pall Jiall Gazette, “ seem to he making a bad use of their line aquarium by setting octopods and conger eels to fight. A number of spectators assembled the other day to witness the disgusting exhibition, among whom was a correspondent, who declares the affair, which was advertised as a ‘ combat,’ to have been a mere slaughter. The oetopods, formidable as they are to many of the denizens of the deep, arc far from being a match for the agile and voracious congers. Accordingly, no sooner did the eight-footed combatants perceive their ■ antagonists than they endeavored to escape from them by throwing out the inky fluid which is their chief resonrse in the hour of danger; but the cels knew where to find them, and a shocking scene then ensued. The congers seized the tentacula of the octopodes in their powerful jaws, dragged the hapless creatures round and round till their feelers were so twisted that a violent wrench was sufficient to tear them off, and pursued this system till nothing remained of the octopods but their bag-like bodies, which the victors then devoured. One octopod alone distinguished itself by an energetic resistance, and tore out the eye of a conger, but the result was the same, and the eight-footed champion went the way of his colleagues. ”