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----Original Message Follows---- From: "B.G. Granier" Reply-To:
nanfa_at_aquaria.net To: Subject: Re: NANFA-- extreme collecting II Date:
Sat, 14 Dec 2002 10:46:51 -0600 As a footnote to Chris' observation, I
have seen a Discovery TV run featuring Dr. Donald Taphorn doing a special
on the electric fishes of Venezualaother species of fish that use
electro-location and vocalizations.. Dr. Taphorn was a featured speaker
at on of the Houston Texas, TAKO Belle Killifish shows just a couple or
three years ago... BG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher
Scharpf" To: Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 7:56 AM Subject: Re:
NANFA-- extreme collecting II > Okay, how about this one: > > While
standing waist deep in an Amazon tributary in Peru, unknowingly > pinning
an electric eel between your dipnet and the substrate, a surge of >
electricity running up the handle of the net, up your arms and into your
> shoulders, screaming "_at_#%&! electric eel!", moving a few feet to the
right, > and dipnetting some more. > > Chris Scharpf > Baltimore > > > --
> "Are we going to sit around quietly, drinking bottled water from
France, > watching the fish die?" > --- Peter B. Moyle -- > /"Unless
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