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Blacktip Sharks Observation
The Sharks that I observed in the animal cam at the Blacktip reef exhibit at the National Aquarium in Baltimore is an ecosystem. I saw Blacktip Sharks, Clown Fish along with Manta Rays. They were many more organisms on the cam that I couldn't identify. This shows that there is a biological community. While on the cam I saw that the sharks even though they are predators never ate the smaller organisms it was as if they were protecting the smaller fish. This shows that there is interaction in the ecosystem. In the cam, there were reefs and underwater moss growing on the anemones. It had sunlight and water. This shows that they have a physical environment in the ecosystem because of the sunlight and water along with the reefs. The evidence shows

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