“We knew mercury could depress their testosterone levels… But we didn’t expect this.”
Scientists have raised the alarm that mercury poisoning is causing male birds to mate with each other, putting entire avian populations in jeopardy.
A study notes how methylmercury, a form of mercury, has been seeping into groundwater from industry for years, and nearby White Ibises are choosing to nest with each other over females.
Daily Mail reports:
U.S. researcher Peter Frederick captured 160 young white ibises – a coastal wading bird – and gave them food laced with methylmercury.
The birds were split into four groups. One group ate food with 0.3 parts per million (ppm) methylmercury, which most U.S. states would regard as too high for human consumption.
A second group was fed 0.1 ppm, and the third 0.05 ppm, a low dose that wild birds would be exposed to frequently. The fourth group received food clear of the poison.
All three dosed groups had significantly more homosexual males than the control group. Male-male pairs courted, built nests together and paired off for several weeks.
Higher doses increased the effect, with 55 percent of males in the 0.3 ppm group affected.
Overall, male-male mating was blamed for 81 percent of unproductive nests in the dosed groups.
‘We knew mercury could depress their testosterone levels,’ explained Dr Frederick.
‘But we didn’t expect this. In the worst-case scenario, the production of young would fall by 50 percent.’ Other birds would probably be similarly affected, he said.
This discovery brings to mind the repeated warnings of radio host Alex Jones on how globalists are modifying the natural world to modify other animals, including frogs and even humans:
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