{"id":6908,"date":"2019-05-14T20:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T20:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2021-06-16T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T09:34:43","slug":"maldives-scientist-glow-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/2019\/05\/14\/maldives-scientist-glow-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives Scientist Glow Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Recently we had a Glow meet with two scientist that are working about Whalesharks mainly around the Maldives. Their names where Alina Wieczorek, and Giulia. They were also telling us about; Plastic\u00a0 turns into miniature microplastics, and then when whalesharks eat their food, they can be possibly eating tiny microplastics which can damadge their bodies, and it can lead to death sometimes. Whalesharks eat plankton.<\/p>\n

The scientists also said that when the Whalesharks eat plankton, the plankton may already have plastic inside of it, so when they eat it they are eating plankton but also some plastic\/or microplastics.<\/p>\n

There was also something about a Whaleshark and its baby, and the mother was staying with its baby, even though the baby just recently died because of the milk from the mother.The milk was poisoned from the ammount of plastic the mother had recently eaten.<\/p>\n

The two scientists\u00a0 were\u00a0 from Ireland, and Switzerland. There were also some facts we were given that we already<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently we had a Glow meet with two scientist that are working about Whalesharks mainly around the Maldives. Their names where Alina Wieczorek, and Giulia. They were also telling us about; Plastic\u00a0 turns into miniature microplastics, and then when whalesharks eat their food, they can be possibly eating tiny microplastics which can damadge their bodies, … <\/p>\n

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