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"Giant Salamander. Japan, China, Tibet.
Altam. 4½ fat. In altano of to 4600'. One
specimen lived in captivity for 52 years. Eaten
by Japanese.
Frogs have been kept in captivity up to 7 years.
Crawfish just climbs, one tail had a snake
struck in the water dead, and in the notch
between the hands by the crawfish, again put
their tails back under.
Brown Lea Cray-cray. Eaten by some fish. Can
crawl slowly. Some are divided by finning, in
feet seem to drag this; more common than fled
thought. These in tin are very pregnant.
The tentacles are all exposed at length and hardly it
are move. They seem to feed them on fish meat
disposed anywhere. Very common in the tank.
Drills. One of the little aquarium had oysters
with starfish as drills. Most of the oysters were
dead but the drills seemed to be as well. The
starfishs had nothing to do with the oysters clinging
to the sides of the tank. Four out of three had
new arms growing on. Evidently they lose these