bighead
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There are four types of invasive carp: bighead, silver, grass, and black.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2023
His medley of El Apagón and Después De La Playa was enhanced with pyrotechnics, dozens of dancers and a troop of cabezudos, the "bighead" puppets that march down the streets of San Juan every January.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2023
He called the research "data-driven and robust," and that it fills an important knowledge gap in how a proliferation of bighead and silver carp could alter the world's largest freshwater ecosystem.
From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2020
He and his colleagues modeled levels of food availability and water temperatures to estimate the well-being of bighead and silver carp when eating mixtures of plankton and non-living organic material, or “detritus,” at different depths.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2019
On some farms and in some stables bighead is quite prevalent, a number of cases following one after another.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
