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...League, Harvard is a big fish in a little pond," she said...
...hungry pike as well as hungry humans, carp can be a most satisfying meal. But the freshwater fish has a way of fooling at least its piscine predators. According to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, when pike are placed in carp-filled ponds, the hunted fish begin to bulk up on food in the water until, after 12 weeks, they are simply too big for the pike to swallow. But the bigger carp expend more energy swimming. Once the pike threat is gone, the carp should revert back to their slimmer shape. Call them the Arnold Schwarzeneggers...
Caves have led to new insights about evolution. The absence of light and scarcity of food limit the number of species that can survive underground. Most common are crickets, beetles and eyeless fish. "We see simple communities that may be made up of only four species," says Tom Poulson, professor of biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "But that allows us to look in greater detail at what is going on, say, between predator / and prey." As a result, biologists can study subterranean ecosystems in their entirety -- a feat that often proves impossibly complex aboveground...
...Fish Market currently resides on Cambridge Street, next to Inman Square. But, according to its manager, Ray, the Harvard Square name creeps beyond its physical boundaries...
...Harvard Fish Market has] been built since 1912. My great-great-grandfather started it--he [named it] Harvard because it was close to Harvard Square. He just liked the name, I guess. It's not connected...