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Essay On Landscape Of Fear

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Could the landscape of fear really affect anything? Well this article it states a lot of facts that it indeed does. I never really understood what it might by "landscape of fear," until I read this article twice. All the evidence in this article proves that it is hard to disagree that it doesn't affect anything.
"The concept seems simple but it subverts the dominant views in ecology that predators only affect their prey by killing them. It also challenges the belief that must animals feel fear only in short bursts, while long-term psychological stress is something that only humans and other primates experience." (pg. 1, 21-24) "Landscapes of fear in animals as diverse as wolves and elk, sharks, and dugongs, spiders and grasshoppers. Time and again it has emerged that the greatest effect predators have upon their prey is not through slaughter but intimidation." (pg. 1, 28-30) I think like when it …show more content…

2, 36-38) And that's exactly what the wolves did to the elk. " Creel's studies between 2002 and 2006 revealed that when wolves were around, elk more than doubled the time they spent on watch. They moves away from grassy fields they perfer into wooded areas that offer more protection but less food." ( pg. 2, 48-50) When they moved well when must moved, some elk were in such poor condition they didn't have enough energy to reproduce. There is a hormone called progesterone, it spikes during pregnacy. In stool samples from 1500 female elk, it was founded it was lower in areas where wolves lived. "When Creel saw a dramatic decline in calf numbers, he knew the wolves were not directly responsible because they rarely kill young elk." (pg. 2,

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