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Sea turtles think plastic smells like food
The push against single-use plastic has some emotive mascots, including the iconic turtle with a straw in its nose. The working hypothesis about why turtles are so attracted to plastic is that plastic drifting in the ocean can look a lot like jellyfish. But how does that explain turtles caught up in, and eating, other kinds of plastic, like that straw?
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