Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1898 — Animal Sharpshooters. [ARTICLE]

Animal Sharpshooters.

There are several families of very proficient sharp-shooters among the lower animals; the most expert, however, of them all is to be found in a family of fishes genera of which ace found in several localities both in the Old and New World. These fishes are wonderful marksmen, and seldom fail to bring down the object at which they atm. Their weapons are their long, peculiar-ly-shaped muzzles, and their bullets are drops of water. The fish, after sighting its quarry, slowly swims to a favorable position within range; it then risgs to the surface, protrudes its muzzle, and, taking-rapid aim! zip! fires its water bullet and knocks its prey into the river. The struggling insect is gobbled down ins tauter, and the fish then proceeds in search of other game.