From the Ted Talk by Karen Bakker: Could an orca give a TED Talk?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
There is a ray of hope. The healthy reef sounds that you just heard can be used to regenerate craol reefs. Scientists are doing this. It's a bit like music therapy for nature. So this is not going to svole all the problems coral reefs face, nbtlaoy climate change. But if we can address the massive epidemic of noise pollution that is harming and killing marine creatures, we could use boctsocaiius to rtseroe some biodiversity.
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Bioacoustics could also help protect animals on the move. So this baby whlae was klelid by a ship. Tragically, this is a common cause of death of North Atlantic right whales, one of the most endangered species in the world. So to addrses this, scientists are now linaucnhg a new bioacoustics program off the east caost of North America to triangulate the locations of whales and ceonvy the information to ships’ captains in real time. The ships then have to slow down, stop, move out of the way. Not a single right whale has died of a ship strike in this zone since this program was launched.
Open Cloze
There is a ray of hope. The healthy reef sounds that you just heard can be used to regenerate _____ reefs. Scientists are doing this. It's a bit like music therapy for nature. So this is not going to _____ all the problems coral reefs face, _______ climate change. But if we can address the massive epidemic of noise pollution that is harming and killing marine creatures, we could use ____________ to _______ some biodiversity.
footnote
Bioacoustics could also help protect animals on the move. So this baby _____ was ______ by a ship. Tragically, this is a common cause of death of North Atlantic right whales, one of the most endangered species in the world. So to _______ this, scientists are now _________ a new bioacoustics program off the east _____ of North America to triangulate the locations of whales and ______ the information to ships’ captains in real time. The ships then have to slow down, stop, move out of the way. Not a single right whale has died of a ship strike in this zone since this program was launched.
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Original Text
There is a ray of hope. The healthy reef sounds that you just heard can be used to regenerate coral reefs. Scientists are doing this. It's a bit like music therapy for nature. So this is not going to solve all the problems coral reefs face, notably climate change. But if we can address the massive epidemic of noise pollution that is harming and killing marine creatures, we could use bioacoustics to restore some biodiversity.
footnote
Bioacoustics could also help protect animals on the move. So this baby whale was killed by a ship. Tragically, this is a common cause of death of North Atlantic right whales, one of the most endangered species in the world. So to address this, scientists are now launching a new bioacoustics program off the east coast of North America to triangulate the locations of whales and convey the information to ships’ captains in real time. The ships then have to slow down, stop, move out of the way. Not a single right whale has died of a ship strike in this zone since this program was launched.