Punch,  62 (1872), 46.

Science Gossip

Anon

Genre:

New Digest, Drollery

Subjects:

Zoology, Animal Behaviour


    Responds to news that Louis Agassiz has discovered a fish which builds a nest. Anticipates the discovery of similarly strange phenomena, including glow-worms living in hives, tortoises hopping from bough to bough, and the existence of pigeon's milk.



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