Habitat
Shortnose gar generally inhabit calm waters in large rivers and their backwaters, as well as oxbow lakes and large, quiet pools, typically around vegetation or drowned logs. Gars have the ability to survive in environments with very little oxygen and especially turbid conditions thanks to a specialized gas bladder. Gar gas bladders have the ability to function like a lung to extract and utilize oxygen from swallowed air in addition to regulating buoyancy.
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