FISH WITH THREE HEARTS
One of the strangest fish known to science is the hagfish, found ill Monterey Bay, California. This fish is blind, and yet is so voracious that other fish are not found in the same waters. How does it manage to find its food!' To make up for the loss of sight, the hagfish possesses a keen sense of touch and an unknown chemical sense—or wtmt seems to be an exaggerated sense of smell. It has been noticed that when food is dropped into an aquarium where there is a hagfish, the fish, instantly swims towards it. 'lbis fish, although blind, has rudimentary eye spotsthey arc not. however, in the- least sensitive to light. According to Dr David Starr .Tordun, the hagfish, which is purple-blue in colour, varies in size from about eighteen incites to two feet, and- in general appearance rather resembles an eel. . . , , . Another peculiarity of this fish is that, it has three hearts. Besides the main heart, it has, like the eel, one in the tail, and in addition to this another special heart for the portal system of veins.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1926, Page 3
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