(Most species of monkey - including golden snub-nose - are terrible with water. While some species can swim, most can't. They also have little body fat for insulation and little mass for retaining warmth, so if their fur is too wet to insulate them, and they aren't in the tropics, they will freeze to death quickly.)
What? Didn't know that... Animal bodies sure work in such mysterious ways.
Same reason why skinny Asians from the tropics will complain about how cold the British summer is like while piling on the jacket. While the British lounge around in shorts and T-shirts in the warm 18 degrees sunshine.
At least from what this skinny Asian saw last summer.
That's more to do with what your body is and is not acclimated to. Same deal as how someone used to living at sea level is going to get altitude sickness is you suddenly plop them down at a higher elevation.
Hmm I wonder how the hell Hyenas able to survive for years despite having heavy stress so much enough to shorten their lifespans in their social rankings with tough skin but with bizarre appearance of weasel dog and strong jaws made me question their brutal and cruel nature knowing if a human "transform" into a hyena, I'm so sure he won't survive easy with the mind and the spirit challenged mentally and physically to survive in Africa. Because I view it as Hyena's life that self-harm itself... I don't see how the evolution granted Hyena some adaptation traits to survive like that besides their strong points. Honestly Hyena really had it so worst...Almost from all directions.
Evolution really isn't "what's best". It's more "What's available, and how far can it be reduced or stretched to increase the odds of reproduction"? If traits help an organism reproduce and gain access to the ability/chance to do so, even if they fuck it over after that it really doesn't make a difference.
I see so, is that how it work like that? Sometimes I wonder if it'll take million years later, will the human population affect the entire animal population's evolution to trigger by limiting down their habitat and food resources from increasing human areas for new homes? Lately some certain animal species were nearly declined in their population to declare as "Nearly to extinct" or Extinct.
Evolution is both very slow and very fast. It depends on how strongly a trait is selected for and the generational times of the animals in question. Bacteria are capable of evolving insanely fast because their generational times are ludicrously short by our standards, for instance. This also allows plenty of mutations, most bad, but some beneficial, to pop up. Many insects are much the same. Elephants and whales, on the other hand, have very long generational times. Change is going to occur more slowly simply because the time it takes them to grow to sexual maturity is that much longer.
As a matter of fact, we already are a factor in the evolution of other species besides our great ability to render a species extinct. The mosquitoes found in the subways and sewers are already distinct from surface dwelling mosquitoes, for example. The ones found in the London Underground may even be their own subspecies. We're also altering animals whose first reflex is to freeze because, well, cars. Human activity is a huge driving factor in determining when and where animals are active, with many formerly diurnal species switching to the morning and evenings or even the night solely to avoid us. Increasingly, animals are invading cities. Not just animals that are becoming known for doing so, such as peregrine falcons, but even coyotes and on occasions mountain lions will make their way into the cities. In India, IIRC there is even an urban leopard population. Roads isolate and fragment many populations, especially for smaller animals. Last but not least, we have made many of our crops and a number of our livestock and pets not only assume forms that are beneficial to us, but that all but require our assistance to reproduce.
And to be fair, we've been a driving force behind extinction since about the time we first picked up spears. We may not have been the sole reason for the megafaunal extinctions, but we did contribute to them.
And to be fair, we've been a driving force behind extinction since about the time we first picked up spears. We may not have been the sole reason for the megafaunal extinctions, but we did contribute to them.
Actually, pretty much everywhere humanity has ever settled besides the African mainland itself coincided with the extinction of most of the (former) apex predators of the area.
Dodos are a famous and prime example: they were the functional equivalent of tigers in their habitat. They didn't run from humans not so much because they were "too stupid to see the danger", but because up until then, they were the biggest, meanest things on the island, and they didn't run for shit. When humans walked up with a club, they were mostly just confused as to why anything dared walk up to it even when they squaked a warning cry.
The megafauna that did survive mostly did so by living in unreachable habitats. Tigers used to live throughout all of India, but they basically only live in mangrove swamps, now, because it's too hard to hunt them all down and wipe them out there. Since many tigers are man-eaters, they absolutely would have been wiped out millenia ago, otherwise.
Actually, pretty much everywhere humanity has ever settled besides the African mainland itself coincided with the extinction of most of the (former) apex predators of the area.
Dodos are a famous and prime example: they were the functional equivalent of tigers in their habitat. They didn't run from humans not so much because they were "too stupid to see the danger", but because up until then, they were the biggest, meanest things on the island, and they didn't run for shit. When humans walked up with a club, they were mostly just confused as to why anything dared walk up to it even when they squaked a warning cry.
The megafauna that did survive mostly did so by living in unreachable habitats. Tigers used to live throughout all of India, but they basically only live in mangrove swamps, now, because it's too hard to hunt them all down and wipe them out there. Since many tigers are man-eaters, they absolutely would have been wiped out millenia ago, otherwise.
In Australia, unless I miss my mark we basically fucked the entire ecosystem by using fire to hunt, causing desertification in the process. In other places, there may have been a dietary component to the extinctions-as in, favored or essential food sources becoming rarer and causing a population contraction. But said retractions would likely have been survivable for those populations... if we weren't also hunting them at the same time. A climate component is also likely, but again, this likely would have been survivable for many species had we not also been eating them up. That's why I said we contributed. Likely, looking at our track record, even if those factors hadn't been present, we still would have rendered those species extinct. It just would have taken longer.
At any rate, our pet trade was possibly already causing extinctions way back into the Qin dynasty. Although you can probably tack on hunting and habitat loss to that one as well.
Interesting information. Yeah stray pets and invading predators are creating huge problems. Wish they won't abandon pets or release into the wild thinking they can survive so they will have more time to handle those invaders. Too bad all farm crops always take top priority over handling ecosystem or move those animals to safe locations like African Wild dog's organization in handling their population.
Vaccine said: Wish they won't abandon pets or release into the wild thinking they can survive so they will have more time to handle those invaders.
When people don't give a damn, they really don't give a damn if a couple dozen species die just because they can't stomach putting down their pet rabbit.
Very so true. Worse, the whole human population so into those "smartphones" and the married types go like produce more siblings.... Even other types who are Dog/cat lovers really don't know so much about those pets for example, Bulldog's genes, unaware of its own health problems and cut off dewclaws of other dog species... Seriously they need huge awareness but how?
Fun Fact: In most rich countries, childbirth is actually below the replacement rate simply because having and raising children is so damn expensive. Immigration fills in the gap for those rich countries which actually have a positive growth rate.