D. Albrey Arrington of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and his colleagues have done plenty of fishing, mostly in rivers and marshes. They’ve caught bass in North America, eels in Africa, and piranhas in the neotropics. In all, they’ve landed nearly 38,000 specimens–representing 254 species–and meticulously tallied how many had empty stomachs.
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