Plastic Pollution Sounds Like Food to Whales Using Echolocation

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By Paige BennettOct 22, 2024, 1:42 pm189 pts
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…

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