This is a long nose gar fish.
It also has a relative, the spotted gar.
The gar is a long slender fish with a beak like or sord like snout, filled with fine sharp teeth.
It is olive green on it's back and silvery white on it's belly. They have spots on their fins and may be yellow-ish or orange-ish in color. The gar can grow to almost 4 feet in length. It can tolerate low oxygen conditions. They have a swim bladder that connects to their throat. When they are hard pressed for oxygen they can go to the top and gulp air with their swim bladder which acts like a lung.
They spawn in the spring. They can lay up to 30,000 tiny dark colored eggs. The eggs are poisonous to humans or other mammals. They take 6 to 8 days to hatch. Young gar grow fast, nearly to 2 feet in length the first year. They may live to be as old as twenty.
They are a furoscious carnivour, praying on other fish. They use their sharp toothed beak thrushing it side to side to kill or injure it's prey. The prey is then grabbed crosswise in it's teeth and manuvered in it's jaws to be swallowed head first. They are sometimes seen on sunny days basking in the sunlight just beneathe the waters surface.
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