Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — Animal Sharpshooters. [ARTICLE]

Animal Sharpshooters.

There are several families of very proficient eharp-shooters among the lower animals; the most expert, however, of them all is to be found in a family of fishes genera of which are found in several localities both in tlie Old and New World. These fishes are wonderful marksmen, and seldom fail to bring down the object at which they aim. Their weapons are their long, peculiar-ly-shaped muzzles, aud their bullets are drops of water. The fish, after sighting its quarry, slowly swims to a favorable position within range; it then rises 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 18 gobbled down instanter, and the fish then proceeds in search of other game.