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  • n  bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth

  • The toadfish, with its huge head, small body and slimy skin, may well rank as the ugliest creature in animaldom.
  • The searobin cackles, while the toadfish toots a musical warning to leave its eggs alone.
  • So equipped, swimmers can peer for happy hours into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico or forest-bound lakes in Wisconsin, study the toadfish that fusses like an old lady off Long .
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  • Fish Brains Reveal Origin of Hand Gestures
    By REEM KHONDAKAR Call it going out on a limb, but recent research by Prof. Andrew Bass, neurobiology and behavior, on toadfish may provide insight into how human hand gestures evolved. Bass studies the neurons responsible for sound production and hearing in toadfish, one of the most vocal groups of […]
    Dec. 4, 2013 - The Cornell Daily Sun

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