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Topic: marine mammals

Right Whale mother and calf (Getty Images)

Boats can't stop hitting right whales

Nicole Karlis
Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) (Horst Jegen/McPhoto/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Gray seals clap back (and forth)

Nicole Karlis
In this March 3, 2015 photo, a group of California sea lions rest on a large bouy in the San Ignacio lagoon, in the Pacific Ocean, near Guerrero Negro, in Mexico's Baja California peninsula. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) (AP)

The Blob is killing sea life

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Salon)

How housecats are killing seals

Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/NOAA Fisheries)

Animals at risk in the Arctic

Donna Hauser, Harry Stern, Kristin Laidre - The Conversation
(Explore.org via AP)

Marine mammals would be in danger

Elizabeth Hogan - Alternet
(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Republicans OK with killing sea life

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-360898p1.html'>Tory Kallman</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The "Superbowl of nature"

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-360898p1.html'>Tory Kallman</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Nearly 3 million whales killed

Joanna Rothkopf
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