Unprecedented salp event at Tasmanian beaches excites biologists
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Unprecedented salp event at Tasmanian beaches excites biologists

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It's the most wonderful time of the year, but it's not the festive season that has Tasmanian scientists giddy. Dr Lisa-Ann Gershwin has been studying jellyfish for 32 years and says she has "never seen anything like this before". "Salps can grow up to 10 per cent of their body length per hour," Dr Gershwin said. But Dr Gershwin said salps could become a "toxic bullet" for other animals that eat them. "We've seen many dolphin strandings, where the dolphin's guts are full of salps, and we've seen massive fish kills."

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