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There were also many other fish, as the balance-fish, which comes up to the top of the water equally balanced, having at each end of its body expansions like the pans of scales. These are its mouths, and if one puts a crumb into one of them without having put one into the other, it turns right over, and sinks to the bottom. So, when this fish is properly fed, it always gets two crumbs at a time.
It was the "hammer-head" shark, or balance-fish, so-called from the peculiar formation of its head, the zygaena of the naturalists, and one of the most voracious of that devouring tribe to which genetically it belongs.
"This fish belongs to a species that is found in all latitudes and in all seas. It is the 'balance-fish, or hammer-headed shark, if I am not much mistaken. But if your Lordship has no objections, and it would give the smallest pleasure to Lady Helena to see a novelty in the way of fishing, we'll soon haul up the monster and find out what it really is." "What do you say, McNabbs?
His head was large, and shaped like a double hammer at the end of a handle. John Mangles was right. This was evidently a balance-fish the most voracious of all the SQUALIDAE species. The passengers and sailors on the yacht were watching all the animal's movements with the liveliest interest.
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