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Robotic fish scares invasive species so badly that it cannot breed 
By Matthew Sparkes US Source: newscientist 12/16/2021
Matthew Sparkes
Credit: Giovanni Polverino
Robotic fish might help solve an ecological problem by scaring an invasive fish species so profoundly that it is put off breeding.

Eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) were introduced in many parts of the world to eat mosquito larvae and keep the disease-spreading insects under control. But they have had a negative and unintended consequence on local fauna: they chew the tails of native freshwater fish and tadpoles, then leave them to die.
 

Reducing numbers of eastern mosquitofish without harming other wildlife is a difficult prospect, but Giovanni Polverino at the University of Western Australia and his colleagues have come up with a potential solution. They designed a robotic version of the largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), which naturally preys on mosquitofish.

The robot fish looks like the real predator and even mimics its swimming behaviour. It is controlled from underneath an aquarium via magnets.

Polverino’s team ran experiments in aquariums with six wild-caught eastern mosquitofish and six wild-caught tadpoles. When an overhead camera saw a mosquitofish move to attack the tadpoles, the robot fish simulated its own attack on the mosquitofish.

 
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