POSITIVE IMPACTS
How do humans have a positive impact on animals?
We help save endangered species by breeding more animals and saving their environment; making sick animals healthy, and caring for animals who can no longer live in the wild.
What negative impacts do humans have on animals?
Habitat destruction, fragmentation, and modification caused by human-led activities.
What are 3 structural defenses in animals?
1. Claws
2. Teeth
3. Shell
What is animal evolution?
The processes of biological and organic change in animals by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors.
¿Por qué los animales tienen instintos de supervivencia?
En la naturaleza, los instintos de un animal pueden ayudarlo a sobrevivir y prosperar.
What is an example of positive human impacts on the environment?
Reforestation, using clean energy and protecting natural preserves and forests to maintain the natural biodiversity.
What is the meaning of bycatch?
Fishermen sometimes catch and discard animals they do not want, cannot sell or are not allowed to keep.
Quel est l'animal le plus agressif envers les humains?
Le ratel
What is natural selection?
Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes species to change and diverge over time.
¿Por qué es importante que los animales sobrevivan?
Porque sin animales no existiriamos.
C'est quoi la migration?
Déplacement, généralement saisonnier, qu'accomplissent certaines espèces animales.
What are the worst things humans can do for the environment?
1. Wasting water
2. Overfishing
3. Toxics and pollution
Quel est l'animal le plus agile au monde?
Le margay est un félin très agile qui peut descendre d'un arbre tête la première.
Quel animal à le plus évolué?
Les cétacés
What is the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is a United States federal law created to protect species whose populations are threatened with extinction adopted in 1973. To do this, it protects endangered animals against hunting and trafficking, but also ecosystems weakened by human activities.
How much waste accumulates in the ocean each year?
350 million tonnes of plastic waste each year.
Quel est l'animal le plus dangereux aux monde?
Le moustique, ce petit insecte est bel et bien celui qui décompte le plus de victimes (830 000 par an) notamment parce qu'il est agent de maladies graves.
Are humans influencing the process of evolution?
Most scientists would agree unequivocally that humans have greatly affected the process of evolution.
How can we help and take care of animals?
Volunteer at an animal shelter or a local rescue group.
What animals are most at risk from climate change?
1. Polar bears
2. Snow leopards
3. Giant pandas
4 Tiger
5. Monarch butterfly
6. Green sea turtle
Quel animal résiste à tout?
Les tartigrades, ces créatures microscopiques à 8 pattes qui vivent dans l'eau, sont célèbres pour leur résistance.
What animals have not evolved?
The goblin shark, duck-billed platypus, lungfish, tadpole shrimp, cockroach, coelacanths and the horseshoe crab. These creatures are famous in the world of biology, because they look as though they stopped evolving long ago.