how does air pollution affect animals?
<answer> Pollution affects animals by destroying their habitats, poisoning them, forcing them to migrate and causing disease or vulnerability,poisoning oceans or lakes, poisoning in the food chain. <context> Humans are not the only living creatures affected by toxic air pollutants. Some toxins, like mercury, settle onto plants and into water sources that are then consumed by animals. The health effects of these poisons are then magnified up the food chain.