How Dolly Varden trout can stomach their yearly gorging

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 17:30 in Biology & Nature

By Stephanie PappasLiveScienceForget Thanksgiving: In the world of gorging, the Dolly Varden trout has humans and their holidays beat. A new study finds this trout feasts once a year, expanding its gut up to four times the usual size to make the space.The findings are important for the conservation of this large, spotted fish, which eats the eggs of spawning sockeye salmon. Wild salmon are in trou...

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