703
Isopods
(mander.xyz)
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
Nice. How does that happen? Shouldnt the metal come back to the soil after the animal dies?
Source
Source
One way is just by keeping the heavy metals (Hg, Cu, Zn, Cd, etc) in their body. Any heavy metals they uptake will remain in their body, and while they're alive they create more isopods to uptake more metal. But, if they get eaten it can accumulate in other animals or if they die it just returns to the soil. They're also useful as indicators of soil contamination.
So Do not eat too many if starving