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  • 2012-06-12 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This Warning About Chewing Gum's Fatal Risk to Birds Accurate? (en)
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  • For more than a decade, a meme has circulated online to supposedly warn people against leaving chewed gum in places accessible to birds because they will eat it and die. Readers have asked us to confirm or deny whether that's true. The meme claims: First off, the picture displayed above has nothing to do with a bird dying from eating a piece of discarded gum. It's one of a sequence of much-circulated photographs from 2009 that was said to show a swallow that refused to abandon his mate after she was hit by a car and subsequently died. As for the issue of whether ingesting discarded gum poses a general danger to birds, Pennsylvania television station WHP's Lie or Legit feature tackled this question back in 2009 and cited two wildlife experts who said that such a death might be a possibility (if nothing more than a remote one): (en)
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