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December 7, 2012 06:44 pm PST
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What birds are doing with your cigarette butts
Nicotine is one of nature's bug zappers. Seriously. Lots of plants have evolved to produce bug-repelling chemicals as part of their defense mechanisms and tobacco happens to be one of those plants. So when city-dwelling birds use the fluffy, nicotine-soaked material from discarded cigarette butts to build their nests it might not be the unmitigated [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/VGiDmtoOt0E/what-birds-are-doing-with-your.html
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