For example, young shore crabs that use camouflage to hide from predators.

比如用伪装来躲避捕食者的年轻食草蟹。

Researchers added common shore crabs—Carcinus maenas—to tanks of seawater containing millions of tiny plastic particles, just 10 microns in diameter.

研究人员还表示常见的食草蟹—青蟹身体里所储备的海水中含有成千上万的塑料粒子，直径只有10微米。

To find out, she and her colleagues collected juvenile shore crabs with dark shells and brought them back to the lab.

为了找到答案，她和同事收集了黑壳年轻食草蟹，并把它们带回实验室。