Re: Unusual animals
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Urban birds have learned to use a cigarette butts to smoke out parasites- VIDEO
Wednesday, 05 December 2012 22:52
As reported Nature and Biology Letters, a group of ecologists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City conducted a special study, which found, that urban birds specifically collect in their nests a cigarette butts to get rid of various parasites. According to the authors of this study, the presence of the lining from cigarette butts in the nests of birds, helps to effectively combat with parasitic mites and other parasites, because chemical substances, contained in tobacco, frighten off parasites, so urban birds prefer a cigarettes with high nicotine content, THE VIDEO: http://hainanwel.com/en/unusual-world/2 ... butts.html
Wednesday, 05 December 2012 22:52
As reported Nature and Biology Letters, a group of ecologists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City conducted a special study, which found, that urban birds specifically collect in their nests a cigarette butts to get rid of various parasites. According to the authors of this study, the presence of the lining from cigarette butts in the nests of birds, helps to effectively combat with parasitic mites and other parasites, because chemical substances, contained in tobacco, frighten off parasites, so urban birds prefer a cigarettes with high nicotine content, THE VIDEO: http://hainanwel.com/en/unusual-world/2 ... butts.html