Bowfin able to survive at least 20 months of starvation

<p>i had read this article years ago and found it again.</p> <p>the article discusses the starvation of a group of bowfin in college lab.</p> <p>they end all the bowfins lives artificially prematurely but not before one has survived 20 months of starvation.</p> <p>i find the article and the experiment cruel...and i really am sorry to share that part with you.</p> <p>what i find incredible is the will to live by the bowfin.</p> <p>this knowledge of the bowfins ability to survive starvation adds to our understanding of how the bowfin survived 180 million years as a species through mass extinctions of other species of fish and animals including the dinosaurs.</p> <p>the bowfins ability to breath air for up to 5 days and travel 1km a day on land were other survival abilities that prevented its extinction.</p> <p><a href="http://www.biolbull.org/content/31/6/453.full.pdf">http://www.biolbull.org/content/31/6/453.full.pdf</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>i love the bowfin for its adaptation and its sheer determination and will to live.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>