Even species that don t identify prey by sight aren t safe.
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This march a male cuvier s beaked whale was found in the philippines with 88 pounds of plastic in his belly including 16 rice sacks and four banana plantation style bags.
When plastic bags end up in our oceans animals including seals dolphins and seabirds can get tangled up in them.
The following month a female sperm whale was discovered dead off italy with 48 pounds of plastic in her stomach.
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Plastic bags kill about 100 000 animals annually.
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Montclairians have been bringing their own reusable bags for a year and half when shopping in big box stores or purchasing single use paper bags at a charge of 10 cents a bag.
Thousands of marine animals choke and die from ingesting this plastic and many more are being slowly poisoned by the dioxin and other pollutants introduced by this mass of plastic.
It bans film plastic bags like those found at grocery stores regardless of thickness.
A plastic bag ballooned with water can look a lot like squid or other prey to the seals and marine mammals that hunt them.
Bags used solely to contain live animals such as fish.
An animal with a plastic bag around its neck will have trouble moving through.
For example sea turtles mistake floating plastic shopping bags for jellyfish.
Flesh footed shearwaters large sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of australia and new zealand eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine.
These 5 marine animals are dying because of our.
The most attention grabbing cases involve marine mammals.
Toothed whales and many species of dolphin use a sophisticated sonar type technique called echolocation to find their prey.
Plastic pollution affects at least 700 marine species and some estimates suggest that at least 100 million marine mammals are killed each year by it.
Many animals including whales dolphins turtles penguins and dolphins ingest plastic bags as they mistake them food.
Scientists estimate that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2020 unless we drastically change our plastic habits.