Oil spills affect wildlifeHow to clean up wildlife after an oil spill? Oil spills are dangerous because they have lasting effects on all life cycles. It is important to examine all species affected by an oil spill. Oil spills directly affect the carbon cycle. They also affect food chains in water and on land. Oil affects animals in four ways: physical contact, feeding, respiration and absorption (Effects of Oil Spills on Wildlife, 2010). Depending on the type of oil it is, this also contributes to the severity of the spill. Weather also plays a role in cleaning up a spill. Four peer-reviewed papers show there are real reasons to worry. What will the spill kill? These were the animals affected by the spill. A tale of two spills: new scientific and policy implications of a new emerging oil spill model. This article talks about areas of the ocean that are affected differently depending on the spill, as well as different ways to clean up spills. Oil, seabirds and science, this article discusses the population, reproduction, habitat and recovery effects after an oil spill on seabirds. There will be birds: images of oil disasters in the 20th century. This article talks about the different types of oil spills. The last article is Achieving 100% Feather Oil Removal Using Magnetic Particle Technology. The article explains how to extract all the oil from the feathers. For many years, the primary use of wildlife cleaning has been the use of detergents and warm water (Dao, Ngeh, Bigger, & Orbell, 2006). The hypothesis of my experiment is: warm soapy water will remove motor oil from a pen more effectively than warm water. Materials and Methods In the middle of a sheet of paper, this might work, it would much more work than being able to use hot soapy water. Conclusion The effects of the oil spill have population size, reproduction and habitat. Oil spills can take a long time to clean up, affecting what birds have to eat and where they can go without being disturbed by humans. Some places were breeding grounds for birds and then other places had to be found to breed while cleaning could cause breeding levels to drop. Over the years, the way we deal with oil spills has changed. “Oil out of control increasingly meant oil at sea,” as There Will Be Birds puts it (Morse, 2012). The consequences of the fragile balance of life in the Gulf's defenseless ecosystems and the broader cycles of nature that sustain life in the Gulf are as limitless as they are devastating (Begley, 2010).