Water shooting fish on the prowl

I think this is just cool. Fish who shoot jets of water at their prey so they can eat them. That is just badass.

Archerfish are remarkable hunters that shoot down their above-water prey by blasting them with jets of water. Now research shows that these fish can precisely fine-tune the jets they spit depending on the size of prey and how well they are gripped to the surfaces they are sitting on.

Awesome skills of spitting archerfish revealed - life - 10 October 2006 - New Scientist

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