The passage describes the possible causes of the decline in sea otter population along the Alaskan coast; a small aquatic mammal which is mostly found on the western coast of North America extending from California to North America. According to the passage, the main reason for the decline in otter population was due to pollution. But the lecturer refuses to accept pollution as the reason for the possible decline in otter population and states that predation was the main reason for the decline in otters and gives plausible explanations to support her theory.
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Sentence: This had led the ocra to chage it's dietary habits and look for smaller mammals such as sea otters and sea lions.
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Sentence: Hence the lecturer gives various resons to prove that predation was the main cause of the decline in otter population along the Alaskan coast opposing the view in the passage which stated that pollution was the most plausible explanation for the decrease in the otter population.
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