Re: NANFA-- greedy fish

EELReprah_at_aol.com
Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:23:54 EST

In a message dated 11/6/02 8:26:42 PM, tmount_at_utk.edu writes:

<< I never figured that a fish's mouth could stretch so much! >>

I once observed the opposite phenomenon. A 10 inch smallmouth bass that I had
just released was not quite recovered when a Ring-billed Seagull grabbed it,
flipped it a couple of times and swallowed it whole. I never thought a
seagull could swallow a fish that size.

Lee Harper
Media, PA
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