Mercury is commonly used in illegal and small-scale mining as a quick and easy way to separate gold from other metals and sediment. But as much as nine-tenths of mercury used in mining escapes or is discarded into rivers where it then “biomagnifies” up the food chain as it’s ingested by aquatic wildlife. In 2012, a surprising study (available only in Spanish) published in Revista Latinoamericana de Conservación found two jaguar canines collected in Colombia’s Paramillo Natural Park possessed traceable amounts of mercury.
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