Fishes have not any eyelids, and necessarily sleep with their eyes open. They swallow their food whole, having no dental machinery furnished them, Frogs, toads, and serpents never take food except that which they are satisfied is alive. Serpents are so tenacious of life that they will live for six months or longer without food. The head of the rattle-snake has been known to inflict a fatal wound after it has been severed from the body. '
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 78, 1 April 1931, Page 6
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