Critique of article 1

The article “Sleek Sailors – The Navy’s Marine Mammal Program” has some deficiencies in it that I would like to address. For starters, it says the dolphins and sea lions were “relatively easy to train”, but it did not say how they were going to train them, or why they were easy to train. The article also says that “the Navy has had up to 150 marine mammals on its payroll” not stating how much was being paid and to whom it was being paid to, whether it be the animals trainers, the animals funds, or who the Navy got the mammals from. It also doesn’t address how the mammals find the mines, how they mobilize the animals, or where the animals are kept. The article could be made much better by addressing these issues because the article is very broad with no specific details.

Walsh, Don. (2007). "Sleek Sailors - the Navy's Marine Mammal Program." United States Navel Institute Proceedings. 133 (5) Retrieved January 28, 2008, from ProQuest database.