PROLIFIC OYSTERS.
:. .'A single oyster can produce 16,000,000 young,".. said Professor,W. A, Herdman ■<!■••■ ■-■ in the course of a lecture at the Royal fnstitutioa. -: "If all lived and produced in their turn, the second generation would aurober about 256,000,000,000,000. By the ; . time the fifth'generation was .reached, •."their namber'.would be so prodigious.that . "they would makea bulk equal to - more "*.:■■■' than 131 njasees the v size .of •..the;: world. I"^i.But'k young' oysters have Many enemies. Starfish .'eat them :in . thousands, as. do .•: crabs, arid sponges, -white millions arc v.swept away by ih»Ud*.'i } Ww •. "- ' '' ".v/-;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14359, 2 May 1910, Page 6
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