Word: fished
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William Hale Thompson, onetime mayor of Chicago, inspired a deal of derisive amusement among the "know-it-alls" when he announced a plan to take cinema pictures of tree-climbing fish in the South Sea Islands (TIME, March 3). The New York Tribune hastened to classify him with the well-known Doctor Traprock, Baron Munchausen and others of similar notoriety. But the ex-Mayor has science on his side, though his geography may not be infallible...
...zoologists say that Anabas Scandens, a species of acanthopterygian (having-spines-in-the-fins) fishes of the family Anabantidae, is popularly known as the climbing fish, because it actually does climb trees to a height of six or seven feet. Its habitat is India and the East Indies. It is about six inches long and has a peculiar spiny covering on its gills which enables it to retain water in the interstices. Thus it can live a long time out of water, travel on dry land for a long distance and can catch on to the bark of trees...
...Other "fish stories" that may seem mythical, but are nevertheless matters of scientific record...
William H. Thompson, onetime Mayor of Chicago: "In connection with the incorporation at Springfield, Ill., of the South Sea Research Co., I arranged to send to the South Sea Isles an expedition to take motion pictures. Said I: 'There are many millions of persons interested in fish. .... I have strong reasons to believe that in the South Sea Islands there are fish that come out of the water, can live on land, will jump three feet to catch a grasshopper and actually climb trees. And I figure that pictures of fish climbing trees ought to be profitable...
...wants to discourage Mr. Thompson in his scientific inquiries, but after Teapot Dome and Mr. Bok are through, perhaps the Senate will want to investigate the case of the fish that climbs trees in the South Sea Islands...