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In the eastern North Pacific, killer whales help regulate the populations of their prey species (seals, sea lions, walruses, fish and other whales). Recently, the reduction in the seal and sea lion population has caused them to prey on the endangered sea otter. Sea otters are a keystone species in their environment, regulating the population of the herbivorous invertebrates that would eat the kelp. The kelp forest shelters an entire community of species. Killer whale predation on sea otters has caused an increase in kelp forest herbivores and destruction of this ecosystem.

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