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Prozac pollution and shrimp suicide.

Entered By: grantb on July 13, 2010 No Observations

BBC News reports that antidepressant runoff is encouraging shrimp to go toward the white light:

The researchers say this causes the shrimps to forget to hide from predators and, as a result, find themselves getting eaten.

Video at the link.

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