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Archer fish

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Arch´er fish`
1.(Zool.) A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; - so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.
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Technique: In the wild, the archer fish shoots down climbing and flying insects using her own version of a water pistol - her mouth.
FOOTBALL: OLYMPIC GAMES: But who will win the four-legged race? ... by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
It also had sharks with chainsaws on their noses; archer fish with in-built water pistols "accurate up to two metres" and a worm who traps its prey by "firing lassoes of glue from the side of its head.
SHELLEYVISION: Weird? It's just not natural by The Mirror (London, England)
An archer fish spits an arrow of water up to two metres to knock prey from overhanging branches.
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