At 07:21 PM 9/25/2003 +1000, Christian wrote:
> > Perhaps not relevant, and this probably gets into areas of
> > Conrichthyean physiology that I'd really rather not know about, but
> > given what they eat and how they eat it, I wouldn't necessarily rule
> > out stomach gas.
>
>Conrichthyean? Dammit, my head hurts already! Not even Google (and
>certainly not my dictionaries) came up with an answer to that one,
>even using spelling variations. ;-)

I believe he meant Chondrichthyan.  That's the class of cartilaginous fish,
i.e., sharks, skates, rays.

>Regardless, unless they eat the bladder of a bladdered fish, and gulp
>down that gas, I'd have thought that gas was not a problem amongst the
>fishies. Anybody ever seen gas escape the tail end of a fish, any
>fish? I certainly haven't, regularly seen other stuff, but no gas.

How's about a whale?
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6947020%255E13762,00.html

-Mark