Sharks Taught to Hunt Alien Lionfish
Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 12:01AM
El Guapo in News, invasive species, lionfish

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"At the beginning, the divers just killed lionfish and fed sharks with them to get the sharks to develop a taste," said photographer Antonio Busiello, who observed the process in action.

"In the second step, to have the sharks develop an interest in hunting them, divers started to leave wounded lionfish so that the sharks could taste them. After a while, [the sharks] did start to hunt them and go after them."

LINK (Via: National Geographic)

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