An unusual feeding technique only recently observed by scientists was documented nearly 2,000 years ago, a study suggests
of the King’s Mirror had found correlations between 26 Old Norse descriptions and scientifically recognised marine animals, but had concluded that the hafgufa “must be relegated to the world of the miraculous”.
In the Naturalist – a 2,000-year-old text that “preserves zoological information brought to Egypt from India and the Middle East by early natural historians like Herodotus, Ctesias, Aristotle and Plutarch” – the ancient Greeks referred to the creature asA surviving version of the text reads: “When it is hungry it opens its mouth and exhales a certain kind of good-smelling odour from its mouth, the smell of which, once the smaller fish have perceived it, they gather themselves in its mouth.
“The lack of scientific observations prior to the last two decades might be explained by the relative rarity of this feeding strategy, or alternatively because the strategy was not being used.” “It shows that such interesting feeding behaviour has clearly captured humans’ imagination in the past.
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