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Green turtles are ingesting bits of plastic that most resemble their natural diet, new research has revealed.
The creatures frequently ingested long thin lengths of the material that were either black, clear or green in colour, potentially from bin bags, and fragments of fishing rope and carrier bags. Dr Emily Duncan, of the University of Exeter, said: ‘Previous research has suggested leather-back turtles eat plastic that resembles their jellyfish prey, and we wanted to know whether a similar thing might be happening with green turtles.They think the turtles mistook the plastic for sea grass
Researchers from the University of Exeter and Society for the Protection of Turtles looked at 34 turtles, but could only examine the full gastrointestinal tracts of 19 turtles.Scientists were unable to determine if the plastic had played a role in the turtles’ deaths, with most having died after becoming tangled in fishing nets.Most the turtles died after being caught in fishing news
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