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True DDT harmful to birds because it controlled them from laying eggs.

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its metabolite Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene vary the hormones, that alter the calcium metabolism and influence the reproduction and growth of birds exposed to it.

How did DDT affect birds?

  • Wurster dissected the samples mostly American Robins, as well as a few Yellow-rumped Warbler and discovered that DDT had caused the birds to renounce control of their nerves and muscles. Many died after undergoing major convulsions.
  • They sorrow from reproductive collapse as their eggs needed acceptable calcium.
  • DDT diluted and thinned eggs of birds that result in the death of their source.

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