Pacific bonito head. The caudal peduncle is slender, and the body entirely scaled. It has no teeth on the vomer. It has a small keel on either side of the median keel on the sides of the caudal peduncle, and six to eight finlets on the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the caudal peduncle. The maximum length is about 40 inches and weight 25 pounds. It is found anywhere from inshore to about 100 miles offshore from northern Vancouver Island to Mexico, though it is not normally found north of Point Conception. It usually travels in schools. Fish and squid are its
Caudal luring often in juvenile snakes and is most prevalent in vipers and pitvipers, but it also occurs in boas, pythons, tropidophiids, colubrids, and elapids of the genus Acanthophis. Caudal luring has been used as an experimental paradigm to investigate stimulus control and visual perception in viperid snakes. It has been suggested that caudal luring was involved in the evolution of the rattlesnake rattle. Attempts have been made to test this hypothesis, however, the evidence is contentious. There have been dubious reports of caudal luring and concomitant speculations. Prey luring in general is confounded by false interpretation. The difficulty is that there