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TheArtistofDragons |
extinction
Nov 4 2009, 1:58 AM EST
I've been wondering, what if some species that have been classified as "mythical" are actually being driven to extinction by the expantion of the human population? I think that we should look before we leap. Loggers are chopping down tracts of forest without pausing to examine what species inhabit that area. What are your thoughts on this?
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freedragon10022 |
1. RE: extinction
Nov 4 2009, 10:05 PM EST
Its possible, but I would not count on the smarter ones being dieing so easily.
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TheArtistofDragons |
2. RE: extinction
Nov 5 2009, 8:56 PM EST
That's very true. Dragons are a lot smarter than that... Dragons are one of the few that I am perfectly happy believing in without physical proof. I think that they are smart enough to remain hidden.
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freedragon10022 |
3. RE: extinction
Nov 6 2009, 6:52 PM EST
I doubt a lot of them even give more of a damn about us than they would about a rabitt. They are smart enough alright. besides that, I think other creatures, speciffically those bound tightly to the worlds magic (Dragons, unicorns, etc.) and those that are smart enough can survive.
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TheArtistofDragons |
4. RE: extinction
Nov 6 2009, 10:48 PM EST
But loss of PREY habitat could be a danger. If there is no food, how will they survive?
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PhoenixFantasy |
5. RE: extinction
Nov 7 2009, 6:26 AM EST
If there was loss of their prey, I believe they would just eat the humans chopping down their habitats first. What stops them from doing so?
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onyxpearl |
6. RE: extinction
Nov 7 2009, 10:34 AM EST
yes, if they are so much more powerful and intelligent than we are, why have they not fought back?
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TheArtistofDragons |
7. RE: extinction
Nov 7 2009, 11:17 AM EST
Perhaps they hibernate? Or, maybe, they're actually peaceful. Or, it could be, that pollution has rendered the males sterile. It has happened with other animals... (mostly fish, but if they ate the fish...) Or maybe they know that if they eat a crew of loggers, there will be an ivestigation, and if it goes too far, and they are discovered, the army will show up and blasst them to smithereens!!
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onyxpearl |
8. RE: extinction
Nov 7 2009, 11:24 AM EST
so they've just decided to die out quietly?
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freedragon10022 |
9. RE: extinction
Nov 7 2009, 1:05 PM EST
not really. Fish, sharks, etc, are plenty. Not to mention that perhaps there could be other sources of energy.
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onyxpearl |
10. RE: extinction
Nov 7 2009, 2:56 PM EST
such as? and if the were consuming these things, don't you think we would have noticed by now?
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TheArtistofDragons |
11. RE: extinction
Nov 7 2009, 10:43 PM EST
We are eating so many of both of those, we probably wouldn't notice...
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onyxpearl |
12. RE: extinction
Nov 8 2009, 9:19 AM EST
why? we keep track of school movements and sizes. and what if that is not their natural source of food? what if some are herbivores?
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TheArtistofDragons |
13. RE: extinction
Nov 8 2009, 3:51 PM EST
Actually, I think that it's quite likely that some are herbavores, and the others have had plenty of time to evolve into an herbivorous diet and lifestyle. Which might explain their complacency. If they weren't, they might simply eat us and be done with it.
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onyxpearl |
14. RE: extinction
Nov 8 2009, 6:27 PM EST
but what do they eat if they're herbivores?
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freedragon10022 |
15. RE: extinction
Nov 10 2009, 11:11 PM EST
Let me put it this way.So, firstly, How many Sharks are there exactly in this moment in the sea? How many deer in the forests of America? Howmany antelopes in Africa? How many fish in the Atlantic sea? The answer is of course we don't know. We can't even estimate properly. All we can do is have a rough minor guess, due to ofcourse factors like death, birth, food, and sheer numbers. So we can't notice properly the disapearance of this animals unless they occur in a masive scale.Secondly, This creatures have been around a long time, Meaning food consumed by them in the wild would already be accounted for long before men began doing estimates of their numbers. There fore the numbers humans have already possibly include the kills made by this creatures, so we would have an even lesser chance of finding any evidence of change in habitat due to this creatures, if any. Thirdly, We can't analyse every creature in the world. For every one that we find, another three pop up. We will never know how many creatures there are, for example, in the Sout american rain forest simply because trying to do so is suicide (quite literaly). OR how many creatures are in the himalayas. OR how many birdts in the rocky mountains of North america. This creatures could go and disappear and go unnoticed as easily as a hand full of sand disapears from a desert. Bottom line it we can not notice, the amount of date requiered is to complex, to many and far to flexible for anything or any one other than an allmighty being to understand, and prosses, let alone predict. Just to finish of, other sourses of enrgy include the moon ,the sun, lava, water, fire, plants, wind (yes wind), gem stones(some are said to have power and give off energy), and rocks (yes rocks. they have many raw minerals. infact some animals lizards, wales, and others eat rocks). Do you find this valuable? |
