>>5115250 >amphibians: fucked already >turtles: getting fucked >mammals except humans: dying, or farm animals, or pets, and those will die too >birds that are hyper specialists: mega fucked
My bets are that birds that are generalists will be able to fly and easily find food in the wastelands and breed to outcompete land mammals that have to deal with gestation. It’s even possible that generalist birds could displace all mammals and only small rodents, primates, bats and cats will be left, which isn’t far off from Mesozoic mammalian genera.
>>5115267 wrong, theres countless species that we will never know that existed, even in modern day, we wouldnt have known about all the cave creatures had nobody walked in them >>5115443 evolution doesnt work that way, once something is a way, its almost impossible to it have it return to its original version so you it can keep adding on to the jenga tower that is their genetics to fix it, its like you did something that caused the inability to turn left, so you have to turn right 3 times to order to go left now; and then its like saying you can breed out congenital defects, also statistically impossible; and even then those transitory forms have to appear at the right time to be able to compete with species in those established niches or become another genetic dead end, and even then they still have to compete with other transitory forms, so a 4 legged bird has to compete with every other terrestrial vertebrate quadruped that already exists
>>5115450 Just because we humans don't have records of them doesn't mean they didn't affect the universe. If they never existed, the world would have turned out differently. You're thinking too small here.
>>5115512 >and even then those transitory forms have to appear at the right time to be able to compete with species in those established niches or become another genetic dead end, and even then they still have to compete with other transitory forms, so a 4 legged bird has to compete with every other terrestrial vertebrate quadruped that already exists
>>5119956 That's almost all herps desu. It's easier to prevent extinctions for most reptiles and amphibians than most exotic mammals due to their reproductive methods and large amounts of offspring
>>5115250 Maybe the polys should have thought about that before selling out to mainland politicians then destroying their own ecosystem to build factories and farm tourist-bux
>>5121155 >>5119985 >>5115436 One of the biggest threat to frogs (and amphibians entirely) is that batrachochytrium fungal outbreak that literally wiped out species in record time. I wonder if there has been anything created to efficiently wipe it out or damage control it
As for turtles it seems conservation has been doing well for so far despite the biggest challenge of repopulating them in particular is their slow reproductive rate. Galapagos and Aldabra tortoises have been re-introduced to areas they once lived in, and green sea turtles got booted out the endangered list. As for the biggest culprit to a good chunk of others species, I honestly blame south east asia and their ridiculous sheer amount of trafficking of turtles as a whole combined with other factors around there for why a good amount of species are on the shit-list right now. It's pretty fucked up for them over there.
The Kauai honeycreepers are so sad. They have no resistance to avian malaria, and the cold temps that kept mosquitoes out of their last remaining habitat stopped existing back in roughly 2019. The birds went from a slightly recovering populations in to probably extinct in the wild as soon as the mosquitoes infiltrated the Alakai plateau. >>5125634 From what I heard, they don’t really reproduce in captivity too often unfortunately. Like they’re not dying, but they’re also not really fucking.
>>5115250 you gotta think further ahead to the future of the natural world when theres no humans on earth anymore, its a fun way to cope with the bullshit
>>5128604 because its like 3% of species that carry malaria, and even then its just better to crop dust with ddt (it fucked up the birds though), and thats why north america doesnt have malaria anymore except when brought in from street shitters
>>5128604 They’ve started to trial run wolbachia bacteria incompatibility to crash specific southern house mosquito (the main bird vector) populations in Hawaii. The problem is that this gets the most annoying people imaginable to stop yelling at each other to gripe about gmos at the bird conservation agencies every time it’s brought up. The method does not use gmos mind you, it just takes advantage of a naturally existing bacteria turf war that already exists in 90% of insects. This has not stopped the gmo accusations regardless of how many times it’s been corrected.
>>5130665 because theyre iq voters, theyve been fed headline after headline of MUHSANTO and think anytime someone fucks around with genes its a bad thing without even understanding what and why monsanto did was wrong or why the people are even angry, they just follow the crowd, like women. these people buy food with the gmo free sticker at a 30% markup and think theyre doing something useful