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Figure 7. Predator evasion success based on capture attempts for fish feeding trials (lower axis title), taking into consideration the type of prey (copepods, plastics, and a combination) that fish were exposed to. Three experimental conditions: trials involving only plastics (dark bars), trials involving copepods alone but with prior exposure to plastics (light bars), and trials involving a combination of plastics and copepods, with and without prior exposure to plastics (hatched bars), are presented. The outer x-axis contains labels for the type of plastic that was offered to the fish, and the inner label indicates prior exposures of the copepods offered (L: large plastic spheres; S: small plastic spheres; NP: no plastic; NC: no copepod). Letters above the standard error bars indicate significant differences based on Tukey’s HSD pairwise post hoc analyses.