“Just the sheer size of these animals blows you away when you're in their presence,” says fish ecologist SolomonRDavid. “These are river giants.”
Photograph by JOEL SARTORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO ARK“It’s a matter of scale. What might be of ‘least concern’ globally is definitely not the case on the local scale,” says David.
“Just the sheer size of these animals blows you away when you're in their presence,” David says. “These are river giants.”To protect gar, scientists first need to know basic information, such as where the behemoths roam and what they’re eating. To do that, they’d normally need to take a nickel-size sample of the fish’s tissue, which contains traces of elements scientists can use to track the fish’s whereabouts.
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