This is another critter I learned about by reading “Mark Trail” in the Sunday color comics: the archer fish.
https://leeduigon.com/2015/07/29/more-of-gods-handiwork-the-archer-fish/
Is this fish cool, or what? It reminds me of a scene in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid, in which the mermaid chastises snide comments by spouting a hard stream of water into the commenter’s eye. “That hit me like a blowtorch!” he cries.
Now he knows how the archer fish’s prey feels.
You want to know how I became Mr. Nature? Mark Trail color comics in the Sunday papers, that’s how! I never missed ’em.
During the week, the daily Mark Trail comic strip in black and white concerned itself with story lines. I can’t say I remember any of those. The real action was on Sunday, when the story was set aside and Mark Trail discoursed on spiders, lizards, birds, butterflies, rodents, and every other kind of animal you could think of. How else does a kid find out about the four-eyed fish, the archerfish, the chuckwalla (that’s a lizard, for us Eastern folks), ants “milking” aphids like miniature cows, and all sorts of other cool stuff? And the artwork was superb!
God’s creation is an inexhaustible source of inspiration, and it’ll last you all your life–as long as you don’t let other aspects of our benighted pop culture dry up your brain.