A BIZARRE tropical fish bags its dinner with a neat trick that should be the envy of cricketers and baseball players.
The archer fish is famous for being able to knock unsuspecting insects from overhanging twigs with a well-aimed spit of water. But dislodging the morsel isn’t enough. The mangrove swamps of South East Asia and Australia where archer fish live are teeming with competitors that would be only too glad of a free lunch. So the marksman has to get to its prey as quickly as possible.
Stefan Schuster and colleagues at the University of Freiburg in Germany wondered…
