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THE photograph here reproduced (Fig. 1) shows the attitude of two pike as they were washed ashore dead in the lake here a few days ago. The smaller fish, weighing 7½ lb., had bitten off a good deal more than he could chew of the larger—8 lb. I suppose the two fishes met head on, so that neither could discern the size of the other. The smaller fish, seeing some thing that seemed edible before him, went for it and paid full penalty for its voracity. Several years ago the late Mr. Malloch, of Perth, sent me a photograph of two pike that had been washed ashore in Loch Tay in precisely the same posture as ours. If I remember aright, they weighed 8 or 9 lb. apiece.
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MAXWELL, H. A Voracious Pike. Nature 121, 908 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121908b0
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