Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Crown-of-thorns eat themselves out of house and home

A world-first study on the Great Barrier Reef shows crown-of-thorns starfish have the ability to find their own way home—a behavior previously undocumented—but only if their neighborhood is stocked with their favorite food: corals.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-11-crown-of-thorns-house-home.html