Endangered animals...?

Question

can endanged animals change their habits so they can survive and not be extinct?
If so, which habits are the the easiest to change and which are the hardest?
Which animals can change and which cant?

Answer 1

Animals are not islands they are components of larger more complicated combinations of life

Everything depends on other things for food ,shelter and climatic conditions
so if an animal moves a similar environment that produces the same coonditiuons must move along with .

what you are talking about is EVOLUTION where species adapt ,through a process of natural selection ,to different climatic conditions and different food resources

this is a process that take millions of years
the speed of what is happening now is another ball game .

of the earth's estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past 50 years. each years, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct.

a lot of human activity is speeding that up since we tend to overpower all the other species in one way or another.

some reasons why animals are being wiped out ,in the forrests are:


the hunting of exotic species for the consumer market
only about 10% of the animals caught survive

the hunting of animals for food by settlers

forrest fires ,that have started because of slash and burning of forrest ,to clear the land for farming, had gotten out of control

the loss of Habitat because the conditions have changed ,e.g less humidity because of surrounding farmlands ,or overpumping of rivers for human use(farming and utility)

because of contamination of the waters ,

expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's
clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

In Mexico is a famous jungle that the Media has been trying to save for years
the Naturists ,and the government ,keep watch .laws are made for protection the wild and to forbid logging.
TV put out a series of documentaries
there are campaigns in the News papers
and all of this has not made the slightest difference

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

the jungle gets smaller by the day
more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees
it is an impossible situation
as long as there is poverty in these regions the destruction will continue

and the Animals will continue to be trapped ,as long as people keep buying the exotic animals

CLIMATE CHANGE
And now many animals are becoming sick because of changes in temperature ,
vital links in the food chains are disapearing affecting other species further along in the chain

90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.

Recent studies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have shown that bee diversity is down 80 percent in the sites researched, and that "bee species are declining or have become extinct in Britain." The studies also revealed that the numbers of wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent.

If bees continue to die off so would the crops they support and with that would ensue major economic disruption and possibly famine.

Bees are not the only polinators but if these things are happening to bees we can bet on it that other insects are also in trouble ,on top of this many people are spraying for mosquitos ,with drastic effects .

so much follows the insects in the food chains ,that we can expect a lot of very bad changes in the environment .

only time will tell what is in store for us ,and that time is running now .

everything is happening so fast it is not possible to monitor events any more.

the animals that can adapt the easiest are those living on the edges of civilization ,such as coyotes,crows ,wild dogs ,pigeons,wild pigs,, etc and you will find that they are all Omnivores (which means that they can eat anything)

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Answer 2

This is an interesting question.

Yes, all animals can potentially adapt, and those that can't will die out. Many of the animals we know today probably wouldn't be able to adapt fast enough to survive if we continue to take over their habitats, cut down trees, etc. This is a very sad thing, and it is the reason that people try to protect endangered species. The larger animals are probably going to be the ones that are least likely to be able to adapt, as well as highly specialized animals (like the animals that live in the rainforest) because small disruptions in their ecosystems could cause major problems for them. Animals like rats, raccoons, insects, all those pests, they will be the ones to survive, because that is the reason they are "pests", they have already adapted and are living with us, and we don't like it.

So really, your opinion on what we should do about endangered species depends on how much you like the animals we have now and how much you feel that our current lives are part of the "natural process" (or whether you just don't care). If we continue in the way we are going, we will wipe out many of the amazing species that we have on our planet now. Some will survive by adaptation, and we ourselves may be threatened in time (probably by bacteria, or viruses) continuing the cycle.

Answer 3

Animals can't really change their environments like we can-it's what kept us alive with no natural defenses or weapons. Animals can adapt to their environment 'using' evolutionary processes. They have more kids than will survive. All the kids have slightly different characteristics. The kids with the best slightly different characteristics survive to make more animals with the 'good' characteristics. After a while, the animal species has changed a little, with different traits than the original ancestor. This is called micro-evolution. The next step is tricky; macro-evolution. Sometimes the kids are mutated alot and are REALLY different from their parents. If the mutation helps the animal have an edge over it's brothers and sisters, it survives and makes more 'mutants.' After a while, these 'mutants' have a family that barely looks like the original parents at all-an entirely new species. That's really the only way animals adapt to their environment. Some can use tools, but none are intelligent enough to change the weather/plants/or food of their environment on purpose to their advantage.

Answer 4

Typically animals are endangered because of something humans have done to impact them either directly or indirectly.

Now, some animals are very adaptable and can survive changing habitats, this is generally directly to related if the animal is a generalist or a specialist. Panda bears are specialists, they eat only bamboo, if there is no bamboo, they can't eat anything else and they starve. Wolves are generalists, if they were eating deer, and there are no longer any deer in an area they could then eat something else.

Of course there are a lot of other variables to consider here, but I hope this helps.

Answer 5

How can you ask an endangered animal to change it's habitat? Humans are encroaching more and more on these creatures natural habitats, where they have found their niches. It's impossible to completely recreate an habitat for an animal with the exact flora and fauna that made it unique for an individual creature. All of the organisms in the world depend on a specific and fragile types of habitat. Since humans have decided to encroach more and more on these species, they are dying out at huge rates. These species depend on a certain cycle and habitat and when that is modified, by pollution, encroachment, global warming, hunting, it causes the animals to be unable to thrive. Animals in general have a difficult time adapting to this kind of environment because they have little or any place to turn to due to the overwhelming human population and the effects that our population is having on their habitats and the world. The answer is that the animals shouldn't be having to adapt, but that we humans as rational and more intelligent creatures have the obligation to adapt to the animals surroundings and to protect our wildlife and their natural habitats. Until humans start taking responsibility for our world I'm afraid most of our endangered animals will be lost to our future generation. We shouldn't ask the animals to change, it's us the humans that need to reevaluate ourselves and change.

Answer 6

I am sooo sick of people cutting and pasting the yahoo explanations and presenting them as original answers. Animals CAN change their habits...it's called evolution. Animals will hunt other food, if their first choice is not readily available. Animals cannot change an inherent urge, such as the urge for salmon to travel upstream hundreds of miles, and spawn in the stream in which they were born, even though many of them die on the trek. They can change their eating/hunting habits, and their living arrangements. They do need our help though. Unfortunately, humans typically do more harm than good in an effort to conserve certain species, not understanding that it is natural for certain species to die out. It's called natural selection..only the strongest survive!

Answer 7

As long as man keeps encroaching upon the territory of wild beasts, this is an almost losing battle for the animal world. Even when man doesn't overtly take the land away, the poisons and natural filth that man creates and can't clean, endangers almost all its inhabitants.

Most animals, like man, are a resilient bunch and continue to create a niche for themselves even under the most horrendous conditions. This is the only way most animals in the wild can continue. Eventually, most wild animals will fall prey to man's continual presence.

Answer 8

It's called evolution, and it is an on-going process, even for man.

White-tail deer, for instance, have adapted to man's encroachment on their habitat quite well. There many times more deer in the U. S. today than when man first stepped onto what is now the continental U. S.. In many of the southern states deer have become so plentiful that they are considered a pest -- in spite of all the deer-car collisions and all the deer take through legal (and, unfortunately, illegal) hunting practices.

Answer 9

Animals are usually endangered because of us, we hunt them down for our selfish necessities. After a while, they become few. They probably do mutate a little in order to survive, but we, being an external force, destroy any effect it might have on them. Even if they try to change their habits, we are still taking them out in large quantities, thus making them near extinction.

Answer 10

Well, I found a list of endangered animals.
White and orange tigers
Giant pandas
Chimpanzees
Elephants
Giraffes