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Elephants under the sea: awkward-looking fish modify the coral-reef ecosystem in mixed ways

Source
Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2014-08-07

Bumphead parrotfish are noisy feeders. They break off large branches of corals using their powerful beaks, grind them up in their bodies to extract nutrients, and expel the undigested material in large cloudy plumes of feces.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0806-dasgupta-bumpheads.html#ZTme9hgBbgBvxfic.99