#NOT saying he shouldnt have done it sea lampreys are invasive and destroyed large fish populations. | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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but literally vernon applegate spent 3 years on the coast of a great lake (idr which one) just studying sea lampreys and how they breed and live and eat and their life cycles and learned more about them than anyone had before for his thesis so that he could figure out how to kill them. there's some post on here idr what it was about or maybe it was quoting something but it was like "how can someone become so intimately knowledgeable about something and then kill it" yeah that

#NOT saying he shouldnt have done it sea lampreys are invasive and destroyed large fish populations.#anyways a big part of chapter two in death and life of the great lakes was abt all this. in love w this book so far <3 #and then how he and his team decided to kill them was keep putting poisons in this tank w a sea lamprey and two other fish #and see when they found one that killed the lamprey but not the other fish. and it worked and they still do that (w a better formula)

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