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Flatulent fish net Ig Nobel award

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'Alternative' Nobels celebrate the lighter side of science.

Farting may be a source of schoolboy humour, but it's a matter of life and death for some fish. So say researchers who have just scooped the Biology Ig Nobel award for their discovery that herring may use flatulence as a danger signal.

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Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban

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