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Nim Dibbley

Nim Dibbley

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i want to see a bichir out of water catch a prey item.
 
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Ponera

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evolutionarily it would probably go down with them returning to the water to hunt and coming on land to avoid competition/normal predators.
 
Nim Dibbley

Nim Dibbley

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Ponera said:
evolutionarily it would probably go down with them returning to the water to hunt and coming on land to avoid competition/normal predators.
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Sure, in nature that would make sense. in the article they mentioned the bichirs were raised out of water for 8 months. they must have been fed out of water? im just curious how the fish were fed in the lab experiment.
 
Aw3s0m3

Aw3s0m3

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Is there sense of smell even as good out of water as it is in? That's kinda cool though how fast they adapted to living out of water. I would've thought it would take them thousands of years to adapt like in nature.


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SawickiB

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Did this experiment involve the bichir living completely out of land? So they just kept is very moist? Thats really cool.
 
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