Wake up and smell the reef: Fish larvae sniff their way back home

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 21:00 in Biology & Nature

A new study conducted at One Tree Island in the Great Barrier Reef has established that reef fish larvae can smell the presence of coral reefs from as far as several kilometers offshore, and use this odor to find home.

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