EATING THEIR OWN WEIGHT
Sir.-Referring to creatures tha: eat their own weight in food, it may be of interest that, during my term as biologist to the Marine Station, Portobello, I found. that, apart from devouring crabs and other creatures, red cod kept in captivity consumed their own weight of pieces of fish each day, showing their rapid digestion and greediness. The late Starr Jordan writes that the borer, or hagfish, two or three pounds in weight, often consumed the flesh from fish weighing 30 pounds in weight, leaving only skin and bones, all in one night.
DAVID H.
GRAHAM
(Lower Hutt).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 5
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102EATING THEIR OWN WEIGHT New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 5
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