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'Spooning poo': how five Eiffel Towers' worth of sea cucumber poo helps sustain a Queensland reef

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Guardian (International Edition)

Publication Date
2021-02-08

“In the wee hours of the morning … we weren’t too excited to be spooning poo,” reef ecologist Dr Vincent Raulot says. But that’s exactly what he and a team of researchers did to calculate out how much poop was excreted by an estimated 3 million sea cucumbers on the 20 sq km Heron Island coral reef in Queensland.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/08/spooning-poo-how-five-eiffel-towers-worth-of-sea-cucumber-poo-could-save-a-queensland-reef