how fish use their spines to fend off hungry seals
- Written by David Hocking, Postdoctoral fellow, Monash University

What price are you willing to pay for food?
For most of us, that’s a question about money. But what if the cost were actual pain, injury and death? For some seals and dolphins, this a real risk when hunting.
We took a close look at a New Zealand (or long-nosed) fur seal that stranded at Cape Conran in...