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Topic: Osteoglossum bicirrhosum


  
  FISH: THEIR NATURE AND BEHAVIOR
CONTENT SAMPLE: 20554 Another mouth type is the upward-directed or superior
mouth borne by this arawana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) of the fresh waters of South America.
A surface feeder which spends most of its time cruising within a few feet of the surface, the
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Recently modernized, it consists of several dozen individual tanks, none particularly large, but with some interesting inhabitants not seen everywhere.
Highlights include Manchurian sturgeon (Acipenser schrenki), Chinese sucker (Myxocyprinus asiaticus) and the bony-tongues Scleropages formosus and Osteoglossum bicirrhosum.
The aquarium follows a practice that was once quite common in Chinese menageries, although no longer adhered to at Beijing Zoo: recycling dead animals.
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