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    Plastic Pollution Sounds Like Food to Whales Using Echolocation

    Plastic Pollution Sounds Like Food to Whales Using Echolocation

    For whales that dive deeper into the oceans for food, they face a growing threat: plastic pollution. That’s because the sounds that plastics make can be very similar to the sounds that prey make, leading to confusion for whales that rely on echolocation to source food. According to a new study, published in the journal […]

    Researchers Detect Microplastics in Dolphin Breath

    Researchers Detect Microplastics in Dolphin Breath

    For the first time, researchers have found microplastics in dolphin breath, raising concerns over the amount of microplastics the animals are drawing when they come up for air. The team collected samples of air released by five bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay, Florida and six dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana in May and June of […]