Everglades Gar

I'd love to do a Jakob von Uexküll drawing of the world of the gar. I wonder what it would look like. Chris Schaberg describes fishing for them as a kid, “just one big muscle” that used to pull his canoe around.

This world diagram would have to include the above-surface world of the gar as it leaps out of the water to fill its swim bladder.

Gar have swim bladders that they fill manually by gulping in air. Swim bladders eventually evolved into lungs. We share some ancestors with them.