Animals keep eating precious plants – we used ‘smell misinformation’ to keep them away
- Written by: Patrick Finnerty, PhD candidate - Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Research, University of Sydney
Gert-Jan van Stein/ShutterstockIn places where we need to protect valuable plants – whether for ecological or economic reasons – local herbivores can cause significant damage.
Current solutions often involve killing the problem animals. But this is increasingly unacceptable due to animal welfare concerns and social pressures. Physical...
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