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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Sex smell lures 'vampire' to doom

US researchers deployed a laboratory version of a male sea lamprey pheromone to trick ovulating females into swimming upstream into traps.

The sea lamprey, sometimes dubbed the "vampire fish", has parasitised native species of the Great Lakes since its accidental introduction in the 1800s.

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Not exactly what you had in mind, now was it?!

Read the rest at the BBC.

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