BANGKOK, Nov 1 — A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan’s Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating plastic yellow measuring spoon. The...
Shells to surfboards: How marine life are adapting to plastic in their habitats, using it for homes, tools and migration
Plastic was the most common choice, though photographer Shawn Miller has seen the animals take up residence in glass bottle necks, detergent tops and even the ends of light bulbs. A hermit crab walks on a beach full of plastic pollution in Gorgonilla Island, next to Gorgona Island, in the Pacific Ocean off the south-western Colombian coast, on December 1, 2021. — AFP picDebris like wood has long allowed species to migrate across oceans from one coastline to another, but these naturally occurring surfboards are relatively scarce and degrade quickly.
One study found nearly 300 living Japanese coastal marine species that arrived on plastic and other human-made items.Plastic is even allowing creatures that normally live along coasts to survive and reproduce on the open oceans. A study of sea urchins that are commonly found in the western Atlantic found they were actively choosing plastic debris to cover themselves instead of natural materials like rocks.
They have also been spotted “stilt-walking” — stepping along the sea bed on their tentacles — while carrying plastic debris used to cover themselves.
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