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Video Summary for //How the Wolves Changed Rivers//
This video is about trophic cascades and food chains and an example would be what happened when wolves were introduced to the Yellowstone National Park. When wolves arrived they started to have the most remarkable affects. They killed dear and they changed the behavior of the dear and dear started avoiding different parts of the park where they could be trapped more easily. The valleys and other places started to regenerate and some bad valleys quickly became forests. As soon as all this started to happen the birds started to move in and some types of birds started to increase greatly. Beavers also started to increase because of the trees and beavers love wolves. Wolves killed coyotes and because of that rabbits and mice started to rise.
 * 1) Who created the message? Scientist
 * 2) What is the target audience? The target audience is people who love wolves and may want to know more about them
 * 3) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention? They used different videos to show the wolves and other animals and they also used close up pictures and videos of the animals and wolves
 * 4) How might different people understand a message differently? They may not get the point of what the author or speaker could be trying to say or they could take all the information in a different way
 * 5) Why is the message being sent? The message is being sent so people will know about the wolves and everything that is happening. I mean, this is pretty good information and a lot more people should know about it.
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Text Summary //for Has the Reintroduction of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone?//
Scientist exterminated the wolves from the Rocky Mountain West, including the part that would become Yellowstone National Park. They thought it was a good idea because wolves frightened them. Scientist found out that without wolves in Yellowstone to hunt that the elk population grew so big that it ate up all the young willow trees until they were gone. This affected animal and plant habitats in many ways and the ecosystem became unbalanced.
 * 1) Who created the message? Popular Science Website
 * 2) What is the target audience? The target audience is people who love science
 * 3) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention? Some creative techniques that can be used to attract attention is bigger words, highlighted words, bold words, pictures, and captions for the pictures.
 * 4) How might different people understand a message differently? They might think differently or not agree with some things
 * 5) Why is the message being sent? The message is being sent because they want people to know the truth about wolves and other information about them
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