Out-of-Control Invasive Crab Species Has Met its Match: Cute and Hungry Otters

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:43:47 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/out-of-control-invasive-crab-species-has-met-its-match-cute-and-hungry-otters/>

"From California comes the story of native species defending our shores from
pillaging green crabs introduced from Europe.

Destroying native crab hatcheries, hunting juvenile salmon, and leveling
eelgrass beds, this clawed cancer has met its match in the southern sea otter.

At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly invigorated
population of otters has shocked scientists by sparing this sensitive ecosystem
almost entirely from the crabs’ destruction."

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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