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| South American Sea Lion Scientific name: Otaria flavescens Habitat: Coasts of Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Food: Their food are fish, octopus, squid, penguins and other seabirds Type of reproduction: Sexual | It is affected because of the ocean warming, which creates the scarcity of anchovy, main food of birds and marine mammals, that resource has migrated south, so the sea lions have to go in search of food to the North. |
| Pelican Scientific name: Pelecanus Habitat: that lives in America from South America to the Amazon. Food: Fish, squid and crustaceans Type of reproduction: Sexual | It is affected because of the ocean warming, which creates the scarcity of anchovy, main food of birds and marine mammals, that resource has migrated south, so the pelican have to go in search of food to the North. |
| Coral Scientific name: Coral Habitat: Galapagos Islands Food: Plankton, micro and small fish Type of reproduction: Sexual | The rise in temperature causes the sea coral death, for example: Because of this phenomenon, Galapagos has lost 97% of the corals because ºthemselves had not been able to recover. |
| Marine Iguana Scientific name: Amblyrhynchus cristatus Food: Insects, invertebrates and algae beings. Habitat: rocky shores of the Ecuadorian archipelago, although it is possible to see in mangroves and beaches. Type of reproduction: Sexual | It is an animal that do not adapt easily and it cost him a lot of work conform to the varying temperatures of the Galapagos, so when the temperature changes drastically at the usual has a hard time surviving. |
| Blue heron Scientific name: Great Blue Heron Habitat: North America, Central America, northern South America and the Galapagos Islands. Food: Sardines, anchovies, shellfish, squid, etc. Type of reproduction: Sexual | It is affected because of the ocean warming, which creates the scarcity of anchovy, main food of birds and marine mammals, that resource has migrated south, so the blue heron have to go in search of food to the North. |
| Llama Scientific name: Lama glama Habitat: Altiplano of the Andes (Peru) Food: They eat mostly vegetables and herbs. Type of reproduction: Sexual | "El Niño" affects the llama because the climatic variations that occur to some types of plants involving the llama´s food. |
| Lime green macaw Scientific name: great green macaw Habitat: Lives from the jungles of Central America, from eastern Honduras, to the northwest of Colombia and an isolated population in western Ecuador. Food: They feed on fruits, seeds and vegetables. | "El Niño" affects the macaw because these stop reproducing when the temperature gets colder and this unbalances the population. |
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