or do you think they would die with us
2007-10-14 11:27:37 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Cats would manage and probably some dogs at least the bigger ones. What is more interesting is what creatures are out there ready to evolve and take out place
2007-10-14 11:31:36 · answer #1 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we all became extinct at once, and the pets were locked in the houses, then yes, all the ones that couldn't fit through the cat flap would die.
The ones that get out: the dogs would form packs. The weak males would be exiled. Cats would hunt, horses would form herds (as they did in America). Rabbits would interbreed with the wild ones (I went to an area in Cornwall where there was a sizeable number of black wild rabbits, thanks to an escapee). Only exotic pets would die out, as they would be ill equipped for winters.
And then most would die off when the unattended nuclear reactors overheated and poisoned the land.
The human race has ill served the animal kingdom. We have the responsibility to husband it well; but we haven't.
2007-10-14 18:47:50 · answer #2 · answered by reardwen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many would die with us, but nature would know how to go on. It would be a long way back for the animals, back to the wildness life. For better I think, as unfortunately we humans destroy their natural habitat, since millions of years. For instances, imagine dogs would becoming a kind of wolfs again, after years and years adapting themselves. All birds free again, no hunting, and no legal murders as we have now. No seal hunting, bears free to grow their smalls again. It would be heaven for them
2007-10-14 18:46:18 · answer #3 · answered by charlie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apart from fish, and caged animals, then yes. Dogs and cats wouldn't have any problem as they already have survival instincts - cats catch birds/mice even though they are well fed, dogs bury bones, eat food left around.
2007-10-14 18:47:49 · answer #4 · answered by marge 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many would die but then evolution would kick in and they would learn how to survive in the wild.
2007-10-14 18:53:36 · answer #5 · answered by Hillclouds 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
animals instinct is survival but if the humans destraoyed or nuked the planet, they've hve no chance
2007-10-14 18:32:15 · answer #6 · answered by ξήĢŁĭŞĦ ŗǾşξ ©® ღஐღ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless my goldfish could sprout legs and jump out of his bowl to feed himself, I seriously doubt that he would live without me
2007-10-14 18:31:20 · answer #7 · answered by njay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the word FOOD comes to mind
2007-10-14 18:36:27 · answer #8 · answered by golden 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's quite likely that they would die with us
2007-10-14 18:31:34 · answer #9 · answered by willow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋