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flying fish) Giant flying fish in New Zealand. A flying fish actually glides, rather than flies, through the air, spreading its enlarged fins as it breaks through the surface of the water. Some of the larger and stronger fliers can cover up to 180 m/600 ft in a single glide. Any marine bony fishes of the family Exocoetidae, order Beloniformes, best represented in tropical waters. They have winglike pectoral fins that can be spread to glide over the water. |
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Every now and then a shoal of flying fish, scared from the water under the bows, would leap into the air, and fall the next moment like a shower of silver into the sea. Flying fish skimmed the water like thick spray; petrels were so few that I could count them; another shark swam round me for an hour. We scattered like flying fish before the bonita, and there were so many of us that we escaped by thousands, this way and that, to the islands on the rim of the atoll. |
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