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Dinner to die for: how fish use their spines to fend off hungry seals

  • Written by David Hocking, Postdoctoral fellow, Monash University
Vincent Antony, Author provided

What price are you willing to pay for food?

For most of us, that’s a question about money. But what if the cost were actual pain, injury and death? For some seals and dolphins, this a real risk when hunting.

We took a close look at a New Zealand (or long-nosed) fur seal that stranded at Cape Conran in...

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