Pictured above are the stomach contents of a juvenile sea turtle accidentally captured off the coast of Argentina...
One anecdote in the article, written by biologists Wallace Nichols of the California Academy of Science and the University of British Columbia’s Colette Wabnitz, stands out. “Relief of gastrointestinal obstruction of a green turtle off Melbourne beach, Florida, resulted in the animal defecating 74 foreign objects over a period of a month, including four types of latex balloons, different types of hard plastic, a piece of carpet-like material, and two 2- to 4-mm tar balls, they wrote.
From
Wired, via
Neatorama. See also my post on "
Death by Plastic" re albatrosses on Midway Island, and this
disgusting video of a Romanian river.
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