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Underwater Noise: Marine Animals Deserve A Life
Marine animals deserve a life just like us humans do to. Not just marine animals even the ones on land. We all deserve a life whether were humans or animals. We should be treated with kindness, respect, and love. I truly disagree with underwater noise affects. I don't like them at all even if they hurt the marine animals or not. Whales are the most common marine animal that gets hurt by this object. It truly hurts to hear that their doing this to these poor animals. Especially, a whale because it's my favorite animal!

In the passage, "What to do about Underwater Noise," it talked about the harm that the Underwater Noise does to them and how they communicated with each other. These Underwater Noise objects as it says in the passage have caused the whales to lose their ability to hear and this is a huge problem for them. The whales communicate in the water by making these where type of hums to alert each other of harm or just talking to each other. This is why it's difficult if they lose their hearing because they wont be able to hear the calls and see if danger is near. It also talked about if the creator of the underwater noise should stop doing this.In my opinion I believe they should stop this process, because it harms these poor animals and they
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What really caught my attention was when it said do they actually harm the marine animals or not. The Navy tried an experiment in the Bahamas where they used a sonar, and 17 whales stranded from the scientists locations. How did they know they stranded? Well they had recording tags attached to the whales, so they could keep track of all the activity the whales made. At the very end of the passage it concluded that the Underwater Noise does not harm the marine life. It's a relief to hear this, but you never know what it actually does to the

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