If you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant...what do you do?

Answer 1

G'day WWE prized diva Maria Kanellis,

Thank you for your question.

It is perfectly natural for the animal to eat the plant. If it is an endangered species, it is probably protected against human action such as developing a property that it lives on from logging or tourism. It doesn't stop the natural processes of animals eating plants or animals. Indeed, if the plant in question has already spread its seeds, the animals actions aren't particularly damaging.

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Answer 2

Zoologists were trying to reintroduce red pandas, an endangered animal, into the wild and monitor it to make sure it was breeding. It was killed and eaten by a snow leopard, another endangered animal, and zoologists won't kill the leopards to save the red pandas. So the answer is to do nothing. Just allow nature to take its course.

Answer 3

Legally, there's nothing you can do, because interfering with an endangered animal is illegal.

Me? I'd shoo the animal away, anyway.

Answer 4

if it is an endangered fruiting plant then the animal will ingest it's seeds and end up dispersing the plant, therefore helping save it.

Answer 5

Take a picture and get published in National Geographic and become famous!

Answer 6

Take that animal to prison! How dare he disturb the precious ecosystem! Put him on trail!

Answer 7

I'd eat them both myself - free of guilt - then one might as well make a nice coat out of the animal too!

Answer 8

Make yourself some tasty endangered stew with both.....YUM!

Answer 9

Murder-Suicide.

Answer 10

let it go. the protection of both is only from humans