One of the professors in the Wildlife Clinic at Tufts specializes in research on lead poisoning, particularly in loons. I've helped dissect waterbirds who've died of lead poisoning, and they're completely emaciated - they die of starvation because the ingested lead paralyzes their GI tracts and skeletal muscles.
I wish everyone who still uses lead fishing weights or lead shotgun pellets would read this poem. (Lead shot embedded in skeletal muscle is nonlethal, but spent pellets lying on the ground can be ingested.)
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I wish everyone who still uses lead fishing weights or lead shotgun pellets would read this poem.
(Lead shot embedded in skeletal muscle is nonlethal, but spent pellets lying on the ground can be ingested.)
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