Jonathan Lambert

Yeah, so it's honestly a little bit of a limitation of this study in that it's just looking at this kind of narrow slice of an animal's life. Showing that drugs can influence behavior in the wild was still a huge accomplishment, but there are still a lot of unknowns.

Yeah, so it's honestly a little bit of a limitation of this study in that it's just looking at this kind of narrow slice of an animal's life. Showing that drugs can influence behavior in the wild was still a huge accomplishment, but there are still a lot of unknowns.

Yeah, exactly. Here's what Karen Kidd, an ecotoxicologist at McMaster University, had to say.

Yeah, exactly. Here's what Karen Kidd, an ecotoxicologist at McMaster University, had to say.

Yeah, exactly. Here's what Karen Kidd, an ecotoxicologist at McMaster University, had to say.

Yeah, there definitely are things we can do. One way is by designing wastewater treatment plants that do a better job filtering out drugs. A study from a few years ago actually found that pharmaceutical pollution in rivers is often worse in low- to middle-income countries because wastewater management infrastructure there doesn't catch it all.

Yeah, there definitely are things we can do. One way is by designing wastewater treatment plants that do a better job filtering out drugs. A study from a few years ago actually found that pharmaceutical pollution in rivers is often worse in low- to middle-income countries because wastewater management infrastructure there doesn't catch it all.

Yeah, there definitely are things we can do. One way is by designing wastewater treatment plants that do a better job filtering out drugs. A study from a few years ago actually found that pharmaceutical pollution in rivers is often worse in low- to middle-income countries because wastewater management infrastructure there doesn't catch it all.

There's also a push to design greener drugs, basically tweaking pharmaceuticals to degrade more easily in the environment, but still be just as effective in humans.

There's also a push to design greener drugs, basically tweaking pharmaceuticals to degrade more easily in the environment, but still be just as effective in humans.

There's also a push to design greener drugs, basically tweaking pharmaceuticals to degrade more easily in the environment, but still be just as effective in humans.

Yeah, yeah. And these solutions aren't silver bullets, but they could lessen our impact. And with climate change and habitat destruction already majorly disrupting animal lives, it's important to try to do what we can to ensure our waste isn't disrupting their behavior, too.

Yeah, yeah. And these solutions aren't silver bullets, but they could lessen our impact. And with climate change and habitat destruction already majorly disrupting animal lives, it's important to try to do what we can to ensure our waste isn't disrupting their behavior, too.

Yeah, yeah. And these solutions aren't silver bullets, but they could lessen our impact. And with climate change and habitat destruction already majorly disrupting animal lives, it's important to try to do what we can to ensure our waste isn't disrupting their behavior, too.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And I'm Jonathan Lambert.

And I'm Jonathan Lambert.

And I'm Jonathan Lambert.