For Fish, Fear Smells Like Sugar (VIDEO)

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When one fish gets injured, the rest of the school takes off in fear, tipped off by a mysterious substance known as "Schreckstoff" (meaning "scary stuff" in German). Now, researchers reporting online on Feb. 23 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology have figured out what that scary stuff is really made of.

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Mathuru et al. in <I>Current Biology</I>

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