Two weeks ago our teacher assigned us an assignment that was to make a PowerPoint about an article online that was about a marine animal. We had to find this article, read it over, and make a slide show about its concepts, information, and we also had to critique it. My slide show was about sea otters and what the causes of their deaths were. The article I used was called What's Killing the Sea Otter by Dan Cray. What I found out is that there has been a significant decline in the population of sea otters because of several factors. These include shark bites, bullets, boats, and a pair of protozoan parasites named Toxoplasm gondii, and Sarcocystis neurona. These parasites get to the sea otters via the sea, and they come from cat litter being flushed down toilets and poured into storm drains. If this continues to happen and the same rate, the sea otter population could suffer drastically and they could become more than an endangered species...
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