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Why animals at the top of a food chain are particularly at risk from poison in the environment?
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∙ 6y ago
This is biological magnification; the concentration of poison in the environment gets higher and higher as it goes up the food chain. The poisons are kept in the bodies of the animals that eat them. They are not broken down or eliminated. So a predator that is higher up the chain gets a lot of the poison from its food.
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