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  • It turns out sawfish actually wield their snouts like chainsaw-toting madmen

    03/06/2012 6:48:36 PM PST · by DogByte6RER · 10 replies
    IO9 ^ | Mar 5, 2012 | Robert T. Gonzalez
    It turns out sawfish actually wield their snouts like chainsaw-toting madmen On second thought, that's not entirely accurate. Comparing a sawfish to a "madman" might give you the impression that these cousins of stingrays are unruly or careless when it comes to dispatching prey with their serrated snouts, when, in actuality, recent evidence suggests the exact opposite to be the case. Truth be told, sawfish are a lot more like chainsaw-toting surgeons. This observation was made by University of Queensland Biologist Barbara Wueringer, who used chunks of mullet and tuna meat to observe the predatory behavior of juvenile Pristis microdon...