A new study has revealed the staggering amount of plastic consumed by whales.
As part of a decades long research project on the habits of whales, scientists at Stanford studied the feeding channels of blue, fin and humpback whales, around 50 to 250 yards below the water surface.A new study from Stanford has revealed the staggering and concerning amount of microplastics whales eat every day.
, shows that the consumption of microplastics comes not from the mammal gulping them down directly in ocean water, but through one giant step down in the food chain as they eat their primary prey, krill.. “The krill eat the plastic, and then the whale eats the krill.”now widespread Specifically, the study found that blue whales, which can weigh up to 200 tons and consume around 4 tons of krill a day, eat 10,000 toxic particles a day, while the humpback whale, which primarily eats small fish, consume around 200,000 pieces of microplastics. Fin whales, who eat both krill and fish, ingest between 3 million and 10 million pieces.
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