Betta

Rather than simply waiting for a clockwise turn and then presenting the mirror, past experience with another betta suggested that the turning behavior could be established more rapidly using a shaping procedure.

"Do you know that Siamese fighting fish—bettas—excrete ammonia in their waste, and that ammonia is toxic to fish? Twenty-four hours flapping their little gills in the same, unfiltered water, and they're history.[…]"

I had previously bought a bright red betta fish from the Chinese spiritual store, which I also sense had been sent for Aurayah.

'I think no savvy. This one mo' betta,' he added, pointing to the house where the drunken captain slumbered: 'Take-a-sun all-e-time.'

I pray dat dey he'p us liv' a betta lif ' den dey had.

Joshua shyly looks down at his feet but then glances over at Harriet and says - “Miss Harriet, a beautiful form is betta dan a beautiful face, and a beautiful behavior is betta dan a beautiful form, it gives mo pleasure than statues or pictures.[…]"

“Now she be lookin' betta,” one of the women said. “Like she has a chance to make it.”

Now you even know the dope game betta than me, look how much money you save fo me when I went to jail.