Philip J. Sawyer 1959 Since the appearance in 1950 of Applegate's work on the sea lamprey in Michigan <i>(U. S. Fish and Wildl. Serv., Spec. Sci. Rept.; Fish, No. 55)</i> and the subsequent development of means to control lampreys in the Great Lakes, biologists have accumulated much additional information on adult lampreys. Larval lampreys, however, are difficult animals to observe in the field, and many facets of their behavior are still unknown. While working with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I kept ammocetes in captivity, and was able to observe their burrowing activities. application/pdf 10.2307/1440405 en American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Burrowing activities of the larval lamprey article