FISH THAT FIGHT.
Tn the gardens of Singapore it is the custom to stock the ponds with all manner of queer fish—many of them of the fighting variety so dear to Orientals.
This species of fish is so combative that It is only necessary to place tvo of thsm near each other, like fighting cocks, and perhaps to irritate them a little, to bring on a. lively conflict.
They charge' each other, with fins erect, at the same time changing colour from the dullest of grey-graens to brilliant reds and blues. Indeed, confinement in close quarters is not needed to arouse their combative propensities. Even a single fish, seeing himself reflected in a mirror, will dart at his own image ; and, irritated all the more by his failure to reach his supposed enemy, will assume the most brilliant hues ; seeing his reflected antagonist do the same, he will double his efforts to reach him. —"Ceylon Observer."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 645, 21 February 1914, Page 3
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156FISH THAT FIGHT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 645, 21 February 1914, Page 3
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