11/18/10 Why animals try to eat litter

     The top picture is of an Anti-freeze plastic bottle, chewed open by a small mammal. The bottom picture is of a beer can bitten by a small Alligator. But why do animals want to eat things made of plastic or metal? The answer is what was in there before the bottle or can was illegally tossed into a waterway. Animals are tricked by the food like smell and try to eat or eat though things that could be dangerous to them.
     A solution would be to recycle bottles and cans instead of throwing them into our water supply.