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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Do sharks sleep?
Summary: Moreover, do they dream of electric seals ?
Keywords: shark elasmobranch swimbladder buoyancy
Message-ID: <4220@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 26 May 88 18:35:21 GMT
References: <17151@gatech.edu> <3594@briar.Philips.Com> <4657@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Organization: Baja Palos Verdes Killifish Ranch
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In article <4657@husc6.harvard.edu> hendler@babbage.UUCP (David Hendler) writes:
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>Do any fish use the swimbladder alone as a hunting or avoidance
>mechanism?

No. Too slow. Thats why they have fins.


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       Ricardo Valenzuela 1945-1962. Long may he live in our hearts.
                         And he wasn't a misogynist.
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                          rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard