Titles read: “A FREAK OF FISHLAND“.
Location of events unknown.
Various shots show an African Lungfish being cut out of a lump of clay. The fish, covered in mud is put in a bowl of water, the mud comes off and the fish swims about. Commentator says the fish hibernate in the mud. Various shots of other Lungfish.
When the water is drained off the fish, he gradually buries himself in the mud.
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