Capitolo 50
you deceive the eyes of his/her never-careful enemies, and to become
indistinguishable from the uneatable weed which the colour and it forms him/it this way
surprisingly it imitates. Protective similarities of the kind are extremely
common between the family of pipe-fish and the reason because they should be this way
without doubt it is for first sufficiently obvious perceives to some reflecting
mind--so, for example, as the intelligent reader. Pipe-fish, as
each knows, it is away from taken by dizziness. They doesn't swim in the vortex of
dissipation of swimming pools. Being almost always small and creatures of defenceless,
waiting for between the sea vegetation of the benches and bluffs, they is
it usually accustomed to grab on for support from them snake-as tails to the
it walks stiff or it goes away of those submerged forests. The omniscient pupil
you/he/she has had to look in aquariums the habits and manners of often the
common sea-horses, blames together from their thin and long bodies in one
inextricable mass of living matwork, or he/she firmly anchored with a triple
serpentine spool to some that it projects branch of coralline or to wave
sea-wrack. Bad nature swimmers, suddenly unarmed, and completely
defenseless from protective mail, the pipe-fish generally neither you/he/she can fight,
neither it runs away: and therefore they depends completely for their grapevine on
theirs hiding himself/herself/itself particular and holding apart himself/herself/itself the habits. Their way of the one of defense is
don't appear; the discretion is the best part of their value;
they hides as much as possible among the thicker sea alga, and it has trust to
Providence to escape observation.
Now, with some animals so constituted, cowardly from hereditary
predilection, necessarily has to happen that the more brightly the coloured
or interfering individuals will be more quickly blotchy and more
simply it devoured from their acute-perspicacious enemies the raider,
fishes. On the other hand only in proportion as some particular
to pipe-fish it happens to visualize some similarity of opportunity in colour or