In search of a lungfish sexer
(N.Z Press Assn —Copyright) BRISBANE, Oct. 14.
Australia • is looking to Japan to solve a problem which has baffled the experts: How do you tell the sex of a lungfish? The problem arose when the Queensland Government Fisheries Branch promised to send a male lungfish to Tokyo for the “kiddies’ wonderzoo farm” there before a visit by Emperor Hirohito on October 28.
The lungfish, a strange! “living fossil” which has a I lung but also breathes through gills, is indigenous to Australia. Lungfish specialists, apparently, are not. The branch called on an aquarium manager, Mr Jack Evans as the only man it knew who had bred lungfish, but he could not himself solve the problem, and his publicised appeals for a lungfish-sexer went unheeded. Mr Evans told reporters: "The Fisheries branch has suggested that we send three fish, and let the Japanese! sort it out. In return, I hope the Japanese will tell me! how to tell the difference.” I
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33665, 15 October 1974, Page 19
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