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Failures of Nature Anonymous
Name me the animals who would go extinct even if humans weren't around.

I say pandas.
>> Anonymous
>>61857

Dinosaurs, lol.
>> Anonymous
>>61857
>>61860is an example.
>> Anonymous
we are the ones who made pandas endangered I thought...
>> Anonymous
>>61857
>>61864
Protip: every species will go extinct eventually.
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Cheetahs, for sure. They're too inbred to survive for long.
>> Anonymous
>>61864

Pandas are over-specialized (their entire diet is bamboo) and have a pitiful sex drive. Either of those is bound to cause a major population problem.

>>61916

Not just that, but they're picky eaters. They only eat fresh kills and burn a lot of calories while hunting. Miss a meal or two and they could easily starve to death. Not exactly rugged survivors.
>> Anonymous
>>61919
They're just too specialized.
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>>61958

Specialization is the ultimate doom of the species. Generalists will inherit the earth
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Kakapos are fukken stoopid
>> Anonymous
>>61970
but they wouldn't go extinct if not for humans.
>> Anonymous
>>61975
They need to adapt so they dont get eaten by cats anymore. If not humans something else would have come along eventually.
>> Anonymous
>>61976
Yeah, not much chance of adapting when there's like fifty of you around, forty of which are females.

At least the current number are kept on two connected islands without animals that are predators to Kakapos. Shit, that's one species of animal I'd totally want to not go extinct.
>> Anonymous
>>61965
So you think the future is in eating shit and other animals' young? Whoop de fucking doo, American.
>> Anonymous
>>62014
lol I can use wikipedia too
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Enjoy it while you can, albino koala. These would definitely go extinct even without our help.
>> Anonymous
>>61916
As much as I love cheetahs, sadly I agree they're not very good as predators.
>> Anonymous
>>62034
They are good predators thats not what he is saying. They are just to bottlenecked as a species that they have no variation in genes anymore and are basicly just having sex with themselves. Or something like that I dunno...
>> Anonymous
Actually cheetahs are more successful hunters than the other big cats that share their territory, only problem is the other large cats steal their kills with their superior ability to kill things that aren't tired from running away. As for the Inbreeding, I totally blame humans for that.
>> Anonymous
>>62015
Bad news: YOU are a generalist. All humans are. Enjoy your shit.

Also, not amerikkkan.

>>62043
The cheetah population bottleneck happened about 10 000 years ago and was most likely due to climate change.
>> Anonymous
We're all slowly going extinct anyhow.

Yes, humans too.

Assholes.
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>>62156

Not necessarily. Add one giant asteroid => instant megaextinction.
>> Anonymous
>>62157
Just 20 more years!
>> Anonymous
Objectivists. No, they don't count as humans.
>> Anonymous
>>62157
>>62167

Eh, add several billion years and in the universe, it'll be like the earth and everything on it never existed period.
>> Anonymous
>>62363
That depends on how many billion years. If humans make it off this planet, we may eventually fill the entire universe with life of Earthly origin. The only unavoidable extinction is going to be the end of the universe.
>> Anonymous
unless we figure out how to reverse entropy, or travel to younger universes. It's not like we wouldn't have a while to work on it, assuming we last that long.
>> Deicidus
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
>> Anonymous
i just farted and poo came out
>> Anonymous
That's the worst. You're all like "lol a fart" but then its all over.