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Hermit crabs 'sexually excited' by toxins from plastic pollution

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Sky News

Publication Date
2021-08-10

Plastic waste in the world's oceans is releasing an additive which may be "sexually exciting" hermit crabs, researchers say. The waters off the North Yorkshire coast have been found by scientists at the University of Hull to contain a chemical called oleamide leaking from plastics.

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