David Kirsh wrote:
> A non-collector friend asks me, "Why do they call them fighting conchs?"
>
> I have no idea. Does anyone?

There are some beds outside the third reef off Lake Worth FL where there
are thousands of fighting conchs. They can make amazing leaps, and when
a few hundred are all leaping at once it looks like quite a battle.

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