Orcas play a pivotal role in their environments by controlling other populations, providing resources, and ecotourism. When a predator becomes endangered, there are not enough consumers to control other populations in an ecosystem. Orcas prey on seals, fish, small dolphins, and sometimes other whales. With smaller populations of orcas present, other populations become too large, like fish, and then the ecosystem becomes unbalanced. Population control is one of the major components of a healthy ecosystem…
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