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Esurary and exposed an smothered by it and the toxic effects. >> kills them. >> kills them dead, yeah. >> and the same thing with the birds and dolphins, what's the issue? ingest the oil as well, it becomes a problem? >> typically in the persian gulf, for instance, most of the marine mammals moved out of the way. this is so big you start to worry about maybe they can't move out of the way. the main thing you worry about is inhaling this. killer whales, for example, had issues after exxon valdez after they inhaled the vapors. >> thank you very much. dr. greg bossart with the georgia aquarium ju...

This is a devastating to the wildlife, initially to the bird, the marine birds especially. >> right. >> but down the road, ecologically, it's a potential for incredible devastation to the esuary system in louisiana, h this is the nursery ground for most of the fish species in the gulf, commercial, shrimp, crab, oysters, that will be impacted as well. then we have the marine mammal issue. we know in this slick, which is as you pointed out is huge. we have a population, one of the largest whales in the planet. and dolphin populations. the marine mammals in particular breathe the air water interf...

Wetlands in the mississippi river delta. we've got two big problems with this growing oil slick in the gulf of mexico. today we found out that it could be substantially larger than we thought it was. more oil may be leaking than we thought. and it is getting closer to the shoreline than we first thought because the weather has shifted. this is something that chad warned us about that we had favorable winds that have now changed. this is now 16 miles aaway from the closest point of land and headed in that direction at a few knots. we're talking about the possibility of hundreds of thousands of ...