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A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SEAS 



development of fins and other organs on each side would 

 be to the animals' disadvantage. As a result, although 

 when first hatched the baby fish looks like any other fish, 

 its sides being symmetrical and equal with an eye upon each 

 side, in the course of a very short time an extraordinary 



Globe Fish 



transformation takes place. After living near the surface 

 for a few weeks feeding on microscopic animals and plants, 

 the body of the infant Flatfish shows a tendency to tilt 

 to one side. The fish as the result of this distressful state 

 of affairs sinks slowly to the floor of the ocean and at the 

 same time the eye situated on the underside gradually 



