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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