Why do seabirds eat plastic?

Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 13:01 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.

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