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sea otters eat sea urchins so if the otters went extinct the sea urchin population would grow too big and they would eat the plants faster that they could grow. other fish that ate plants would go extinct, then the animals that ate them would go extinct. in other words... the ecosystem would be ruined.

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sea otters eat sea urchins so if the otters went extinct the sea urchin population would grow too big and they would eat the plants faster that they could grow. other fish that ate plants would go extinct, then the animals that ate them would go extinct. in other words... the ecosystem would be ruined.

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sea otters eat sea urchins so if the otters went extinct the sea urchin population would grow too big and they would eat the plants faster that they could grow. other fish that ate plants would go extinct, then the animals that ate them would go extinct. in other words... the ecosystem would be ruined.

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Sea otters eat various species that consume kelp. Kelp forests are essential habitats for many marine organisms near the Pacific coast of North America. Without the sea otter, these species, such as sea urchins, consume enough kelp to nearly eliminate the kelp forest altogether. This is currently damaging many marine ecosystems. Hopefully, sea otter populations will recover and eat enough of the urchins to save the kelp forests. In the meantime, we must do what we can to protect the sea otters.

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Then there would be no more sea otters, and that would be very sad because they are beautiful animals.

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The fishand crabpopulation would grow even if other animals eat them

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