Word: daldorff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fishes of Siam by the late Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Siamese fish frequently set out on overland treks. One capricious clarias batrachus, apparently bored with captivity, jumped out of its bowl, wriggled down two long corridors, was caught high-tailing it out the front door. A Danish scientist named Daldorff once saw a fish leering at him from five feet up an Indian palm tree. The Smithsonian's Smith, admitting that he had never personally seen a fish climb a tree, was sure that it can, and does, happen in Siam...
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