Why do seabirds eat plastic? The answer stinks
Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
If it smells like food, and looks like food, it must be food, right? Not in the case of ocean-faring birds that are sometimes found with bellies full of plastic. But very little research examines why birds make the mistake of eating plastic in the first place. It turns out that marine plastic debris emits […]