Everything feeds on everything else - large birds eat smaller birds and mice. But mice have their place, eating grain and dispersing seeds with their spoor. So every animal either is food to another larger animal or, if it eats grains and seeds, helps these to be distributed and planted elsewhere.
So what one animal has absolutely no use at all on earth, doesn't form part of this?
My own theory is that if you removed humans from the earth then it wouldn't really make much of a difference - the food chain would continue and nature would get into a balance.
Am I right? Or what one species could be removed with minimum impact on nature and the food chain?
2007-02-09 23:23:12 · 28 answers · asked by gorgeousfluffpot 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Unfortunately, even humans have their place. Take away the humans, and those that are our pray (whether it be cattle and chickens, or whether it be deer and wild turkey) will grow to abundance and cause a lot of eco-damage.
About six months ago, I was watching a show about the impact that removing wolves from Yellowstone park caused. Just wolves.... After the wolves were removed (i.e. killed), the deer population exploded. With that, they required more food, and went after the young trees along the banks of streams. This killed the young trees, allowing for soil erosion. The soil erosion prevented the Beaver from seeing the area as a good place to build a dam. With the beaver not building a dam, many fish didn't have deep places to live, and the fish population in the streams began to plummet.
Within just a few years of the wolf being reintroduced into the park, this apparant eco-disaster reversed itself.
One species can do a lot.
2007-02-09 23:34:10 · answer #1 · answered by mamasquirrel 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
human makes the axis of the food chain, as all the rest of creatures are made to feed them or benefit them one way or another. i cant think of any creature at all, by removal of which there is not gonna be any effect to the nature or food chain.....as bugs/moths make food of other animals, and as well as are used to make medications, likewise every other animal and plants. even nonelivig creatures have a role to play in living creatures' life. had there been no use for any of the creatures on earth, they wouldnt have lived now; for an instance Dinosaurs, they vanished before human history began on earth.
2007-02-09 23:36:55 · answer #2 · answered by Alkahest 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, not these days. There are so many domesticated species that could not survive without human managed environments. The impact would be quite severe. A lot of what we think of as natural landscape is completely man-made!
2007-02-09 23:29:08 · answer #3 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you're right. The world would be a better place without people, and nothing would miss them. Except maybe my cat but I couldn't be certain about that, if he ever learns to use the tin-opener I'm doomed.
2007-02-10 00:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by paywithnaivety 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think anything or anyone would miss the roaches or water bugs as they are sometimes called, or mosquito's or gnats, or possibly jellyfish, I can't get into any ocean without jellyfish being in my way, and they can kill...
2007-02-09 23:42:57 · answer #5 · answered by aspenkdp2003 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Morons
2007-02-09 23:26:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Dogs. We don't eat them and there are hardly any left in the wild, they would make no difference to the food chain.
2007-02-09 23:32:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, I think you are right.
The one thing is the population control that humans give, with hunting and things like that.
The top of the food chain is the one you want to get rid of if you had to lose one of them. It affects no one bu tthat species.
The bottom affects all.
2007-02-09 23:26:14 · answer #8 · answered by Work is for Busters 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
animals at the top of the food chain. Polar bears for example.
2007-02-09 23:34:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Every species on this planet is vital, that is why we should not be over hunting and destroying the natural environments.
2007-02-09 23:28:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋