What birds are doing with your cigarette butts
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.netNicotine 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…
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