Article Analysis Of How Kitty Is Killing The Dolphins By Christopher Solomon

Introduction: The article "How Kitty is Killing the Dolphins" by Christopher Solomon discusses how pathogens from land are travelling into the oceans and affecting marine environment such as, otters, dolphins, and orca whales. Solomon mentions how human and animal feces are one of the ways causing marine wildlife to fall ill of viruses and diseases. The article explains many pathogens and how they are harming the animals and also ways to prevent the furthering of the pathogens.
Summary:
The article begins with Miller, who is a wildlife pathologist and veterinarian, spending days doing autopsies on dead animals. The cause of these deaths, Sarcocystis neurona, a single- celled parasite that comes from opossums. This pathogen along with many others have been causing many wildlife to fall ill and sometimes die. Solomon writes, "The most studied terrestrial pathogen currently affecting sea animals comes courtesy of America's favorite house pet, the cat" (Solomon 74). The feces of the house cat carries a parasite, T. gondii, which has affected otters from California to Hawaiian monk seals. According to Michael Grigg, chief of the molecular parasitology unit at the National Institute of Allergy and

One section was about how cat poop caused otters and dolphins to get sick. I found the article easy to read and everything flowed together. Each section contributed to the main theme or problem. What made the article stick out from the rest was the title. Going in I thought the entire article was going to be about cat feces killing animals and I was really intrigued. The title was kind of deceiving because it was about multiple pathogens and diseases that affected multiple animals not just dolphins. I did like the way the cover pages made it seem like a detective story and that it continued into the first two paragraphs. The detective theme made it more interesting to