Scary smell may help save corals

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Researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the University of Sunshine Coast (Australia) are attempting to replicate a new-found scent emitted by Giant Triton snails that scares the bejeezus out of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (AKA COTS AKA SPS Mass Murderer) in hopes of curbing their killing spree. Giant Tritons are natural starfish predators, and it turns out COTS can smell them and are terrified of the scent.


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Thats pretty crazy kewl.
 
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That's really cool. A reef in Australia I did some work with had previously had some of these move through. I'm not sure how thye could control the dispersal of the smell, but its still a really cool idea
 
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