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Posted Thu Feb 28 2008: from United Press International:
Polluted prey affects wild birds http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1204238512
"Welsh scientists have found brain and behavioral changes in wild birds after the birds forage on invertebrates contaminated with environmental pollutants. Katherine Buchanan and colleagues at Cardiff University studied male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) foraging at a sewage treatment works and analyzed the earthworms that constitute their prey. The researchers found birds exposed to environmentally relevant levels of synthetic and natural estrogen developed longer and more complex songs compared with males in a control group...The researchers also found female starlings prefer the song of males exposed to the mixture of endocrine disrupting chemicals, suggesting the potential for population level effects on reproductive success."
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Clearly, the female starlings just feel sorry for the males. Not the first time pity has gotten a fella laid, eh?

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