Extinction And Wildlife Extinction

Imagine a world where one extinct animal causes chaos. It eats all the plants and invades other animals territory. Animals are dropping like flies due to one extinct, no longer existing, animal being brought into the world once again this time by humans. Humans also can be the cause of extinction hunting, destroying an animal's home, pollution, and introduction of alien species are just a few ways that we can cause extinction of an animal. Extinction can also occur naturally when disease is spread, or an invasive species takes over. I believe that we should not bring back extinct creatures for three distinct reasons. De- extinction could hinder conservation efforts,de-extinction attempts have failed, and finally bringing back extinct

Since earth was created, there has been a natural phenomenon of species across the globe appearing and disappearing. However, in the past century, many species of animals have been disappearing at an alarming rate. Mainly, this rapidly occurring issue is caused by humans. Humans that contribute to the harmful actions that cause side effects such a pollution, deforestation, habitat loss and poaching. The natural rate of extinction pales in comparison to the extinction rate caused by all of these. According to the World Wildlife Fund, the current rate of extinction is 11,000 times greater than the natural extinction rate. Several different efforts have been made in order to stop or slow down the extinction of earth’s species. The Endangered Species Act is possibly the most successful example of these efforts. It’s main purpose is to get a commitment from the American people that they will work hand in hand to help save species that are at risk of becoming extinct and never returning. This act was put in place in 1973 and since then, no other law about the disappearance of wildlife has been quite as accomplished. Many different species that are protected under this law are either fully recovered or on their way to becoming safer. Laws like these are helping many different creatures left and right, however, at the alarming rate that they are disappearing, something else needs to be done. What people don’t seem to realize is that we depend on many of the animals that we are

Stephen Gould’s essay “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs” completely agrees with Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb’s essay “Argument, Critical Thinking, and Rationality.” Gould’s essay deals with three theories for the extinction of the dinosaurs, two of which he argues are entirely invalid because they are not in accordance with the basic rules of argument laid out by Williams and Colomb in their essay. Gould also states that the third theory of dinosaur extinction, natural disaster, follows all the rules that Williams and Colomb espouse, and thus is a sound argument. Gould, Williams, and Colomb all state that the world has a problem with irrational arguments being shoved down people’s throats, and call for a

Humans have caused another extinction, one that could possibly take us down in the process, species are exponentially going extinct because of habitat loss, species exportation, and invasive species bullying native species. On the other hand, scientists are trying to safe guard native species, keep animals in captivity whether it be for the animals well-being or for research, and widespread invasion. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting “What Everglades Pythons and Other Invasive Species are Trying to Tell Us,” by Julia Whitty and “The Sixth Extinction,” by Jeff Corwin.

White-Nosed Syndrome and the Hopeful Cure One the most underestimated animals in the United States is the bat. It is either the side-kick or essence of doom or evil in most Halloween stories. This nocturnal animal is a highly necessary part of society and their need in our ecosystem. Just like most animals, the loss of a species is due to death, disease, or human exposure, creates a trickledown effect on all other aspects of life. Due to their necessity, the White-Nosed Syndrome plaguing bats today must be rectified to preserve the ecosystem of caves and the balance of insects in the world today.

The advent of functional analysis (Iwata, Dorsey, Slifer, Bauman, & Richman, 1982/1994) and functional assessments (Dunlap & Kern, 1993) have provided behavior analysists with great ability to provide effective treatment for their clients. One common topic of research is the treatment of escape-maintained behaviors.

White-nose syndrome is a disorder connected to exceptional bat transience event in several areas of North America. In the study conducted by Blehert et al (2009), bats declines beyond 75% from winter 2006 to 2007. The fungal growths on their muzzles, ears, and/or wing membranes of the bats, cause them to collapse (Blehert et al. 2009). Thus, this experiment was done as research methods for inhibiting the growth, investigating factors affect the growth and to prevent the growth of the tip.

In the two essays being discussed we learn that science has a vast range of definitions. Science is the effort to understand (or to understand better), the history of the natural world and how the natural world works with observable physical evidence as the base of understanding. Science is about how the hypothesis is developed and how well it is defended.

Athens is home to forest-rooting bats such as, the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) and the Eastern Red Bat (Lasurius borealis). WNS is mostly spread in caves during hibernation. Although Athens bats are not cave-dwelling bats, they are still vectors to the fungus that causes the syndrome. White Nose Syndrome is a virulent fungal disease and is highly contagious to bats. The name of the disease is how you can determine if a bat is infected, as the hair around their nose turns white. The disease also infects the bats skin and wing membranes. As bats prepare to hibernate in the fall, they seek to store fat for the duration of the winter. WNS causes the bats to awaken more frequently and abnormally during hibernation. This causes the bats to use their stored fat prematurely and sadly, the bats do not make it to spring. In conclusion, whether the bats’ lungs fill with fluid, their wings are destroyed, or their food storage is prematurely consumed, this disease is

White nose syndrome is a fungal disease that has been devastating North American bat populations since 2006. It is characterized by a white “fuzzy muzzle”, wing lesions, and mortality. The epidemic has killed over 6.7 million bats to date; yet the majority of hibernating bats are not listed on the Endangered Species Act. Pseudogymnoascus destructans is the fungal pathogen that is both psychrophilic and keratinophilic and it invades the bats at a time when they are actively suppressing respiration, have a slowed metabolism, lowered body temperature and a weakened immune system. Scientists have observed unusual flying patterns during hibernation periods. Early on physiological disturbances are proposed to take place causing the most impacted

To start new laws and community would need to be put forth to ensure that the Indiana bat is not disturbed during their hibernation in caves. One way to complete this is by working with the local government to install gates to block access to the caves when the Indiana bat is hibernating. Another way to help ensure the survival of this species would be to put forth community education to help raise funds and awareness in finding cure for the white-nose syndrome (Animals-Moms.me 2016). I do not believe that these change would not require that much sacrifice from us humans in order to ensure the survival of this species. I do not believe the extinction of this species would have a large negative affect on humans, but seeing as it is one of many species of bat’s currently affected by the white-nose syndrome. With this issue in mind the extinction of this species could cause a large misbalance within their

White nose syndrome is a fungus that grows on hibernating bats’ muzzles that has killed nearly 6 million of them. Although traditionally found in most if not all eastern states, bats in caves as far south as Mississippi, as far west as Oklahoma, and as far north as Canada have been found with the devastating fungus. Infecting 47 species of bats, the disease was first noticed in the winter of 2006-2007 in New York, because of the odd behavior of the bats. It was later discovered that the fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, causes infected bats to exhibit uncommon behavior such as flying during the day. Scientist have discovered that this fungus, which distributed hydration cycles, caused the bats to awake early during hibernation in order

Bill Freedmen, author of “Endangered Species—Human Causes Of Extinction and Endangerment” notes, “scientists approximate that present extinction rates are 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than the average natural extinction rate.” These distressing numbers should be acted upon to save the endangered species and avoid the catastrophic change to this planet if these species were to become extinct. In order to produce change, people need to recognize that habitat loss, climate change, and poaching are all factors in why our animal species are going extinct.

It’s clear that a great extinction is coming from the evidence of the destruction of other species around us. The choices made by the human race have too often negatively affected the surrounding species. Tracy Wilson, the site director for HowStuffWorks.com, in an article for Animal Planet, states that

Since before the industrial evolutions humans have been pumping green house gasses—carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons— into the atmosphere however, it wasn’t until recently that the amounts being produced are shoving the Earth into a sixth extinction. While the causes of this upcoming extinction are constantly debated on it has earned itself the name Holocene extinction. This name is derived from the theory that humans are the main contributors to this extinction. To investigate the cause Elizabeth Kolbert, and American journalist and professor at Williams College, took the world on a wild and saddening journey on the human contribution to this looming extinction in her novel, The Sixth Extinction; An Unnatural History. Not only does Kolbert’s book explain how humans have contributed to global warming and its effects on life on land but also ocean acidification and how life under the sea has changed over the years.