Plastic rubbish smells good to turtles

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Turtles seem to be attracted to the odour of marine micro-organisms that colonise floating plastic objects

an unfortunate habit of devouring plastic objects floating in the sea. These then get snared in their alimentary canals, cannot be broken down by the animals’ digestive enzymes and may ultimately kill them. It is widely assumed that this penchant for plastics is a matter of mistaken identity. Drifting plastic bags, for instance, look similar to jellyfish, which many types of turtles love to eat. Yet lots of plastic objects that end up inside turtles have no resemblance to jellyfish.

Since turtles are known to break the surface periodically and sniff the air when navigating towards their feeding areas, Dr Pfaller theorised that they are following these same chemicals, and are likewise fooled into thinking that floating plastic objects are edible.

 

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Plastics blobbing around maybe looks like jellyfish to them

It's very sad to read and imagine the pain our marine mates are going through for survival.

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