Interesting reef article

[fritz]

http://www.physorg.com/news65279164.html

 

[House of Laughter]

Now this is some seriously intresting Science - Solbby, Mr Anderson SPykes and all you scientists - check this out

"We let them feed for one hour," Grottoli said. "Then we harvested them all, dissected each polyp and counted how many zooplankton each had eaten, how big they were and what species. That told us how much the coral had eaten."

House

 

[masterswimmer]

Very interesting read. Thanks for the link Fred.

swimmer

 

[fritz]

Here's a link from the Discovery Channel with a bit more info.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060501/coral_pla.html
It says that this info was also published in the April issue of Nature.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

good read.... very interesting