Animal behaviour: Plastic smells good to marine birds

Marine animals often mistake plastic pollution for food, possibly because of its smell.



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Marine grazers such as krill consume microscopic organisms called phytoplankton, which release dimethyl sulfide (DMS). Some of krill’s seabird predators, such...

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