Griffin Garbarini
Zielinski, Sarah. "When Swimming with Manatees, Mind the Herd." Science News. N.p., 01 June 2015. Web. 04 June 2015. <https://www.sciencenews.org/article/when-swimming-manatees-mind-herd?tgt=nr>.
This article was about swimmers in Florida's Crystal River. It tells a first person encounter with manatees. It talks about the lobbyists who rightfully protest swimming with these animals. People in the tour groups were educated on how to act around the “sea cows”, but tourists who had rented their own boats had created a lot of noise as well as many people. This article also brought up how the number of manatees is increasing while it is still very low. Something has to be done to ensure these numbers still increase.
This information is vital to me. I would like to become a marine mammal scientist in college. This means I would study whales, seals, manatees, and polar bears. In order to study these creatures their must be some left for us to study. It also created tourism which boosts the economy. Marine tourism is a big thing in florida and for them to not have some of it could impact the economy.
Overall I think this was an informative article. It told the reader about the situation in Crystal River as well as Manatees as a whole. The article also uses imagery and pictures to enhance the reader's experience. The article was a short though and could have told us more about what we can do to help the manatees. If I could change anything about this article I would have included an interview with a professional in the field to get their imput.
Mac Crawford
ReplyDelete6-9-15
Zielinski, Sarah. "When Swimming with Manatees, Mind the Herd." Science News. N.p., 01 June 2015. Web. 04 June 2015. .
Griffin did a great job reviewing the article “When Swimming with Manatees, Mind the Herd,” by Sarah Zielinski. This article talks about real life encounters with Manatees. It also speaks to educating tours and shows of Manatees. Griffin did many things great in this review. First, he clearly broke his review into three paragraphs which made it very professional and easy to read. Also Griffin did a great job in his critique of the article. Finally, he used great language to enhance his review. There were two things that Griffin could easily fix. First, The format of the third paragraph is different than the first two making it look unprofessional. Secondly, I would have liked to see more quotes or facts in his review of the article. One interesting fact is that there are only 6,000 Manatees in the world. Overall Griffin did a great job reviewing this article.