Few people know of my unhealthy habit of watching documentaries and nature photos / fauna, as well as to know as much as possible on the Conservation and human contamination from the natural habitat of some of the species most at risk. I say they have unhealthy because my sick and tired of seeing me only watch Animal Planet on Sky. But recently took some time to look at them too. My brother looked at me with a program on the conservation of gorillas in Dsanga, one of the last nearly pristine reserves for these animals, thanks to the fact that it is so inaccessible as to be almost unattainable for the poachers, who usually kill them for their value as trophies (Like the silver-backed males are the most coveted trophies) and a few other body parts that are sold on the black market. For those who do not know, specifically, there are two species of gorillas, and both are considered the latest report of the World Conservation Union as CR, the scale of the threat of extinction. CR stands for "critically endangered", and is labeled immediately preceding the EW, that is "exstint in the wild (at least I seem to remember that this is the nomenclature, then I go about it. That still later, and the last , is the EX, and you can well imagine its meaning.
The WCU annually publishes its mysterious Red List, a report that indicates the state of scientific of each species considered at risk, and is unfortunately on the increase. In 2006 if I remember correctly a 50.000 species considered, a fifteen thousand were considered "threathened, half of these were animals, the rest are plants, mosses and lichens. From 2000 to 2006 (read now on wikipedia) a list of extinct has increased by 18, for a total of 784 species totally extinct from 1500 to present. The list is too too too long, and inside there are animals that we know well: apart from the Ice Age that Dodo explains well why are you xD extinct within this category are a lot of species of elephants (Chinese , North African) and lots of hippos in Europe! Yes we had the hippos!
An example of an animal considered extinct and then promoted instead to "Extinct in the Wild" is the Berber Lion, a majestic kind of lion that lived in North Africa. I remember some time ago that he saw a special in which recovery from an illegal zoo in nomadic morocco a very rare male specimen. Unfortunately this was not pure-bred male, and there are no other examples of pure Berber Lion, the species is doomed to flounder cmq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lion80.jpeg
\u0026lt;--- the most striking feature of Berber lions have a mane is very thick compared to their African cousins canons. Mane covering the entire stomach for the entire length. I'm really majestic; _; Fucking hunters colonialists. I bet some son of a father has in his cold castle in England, a trophy of his grandfather, the head of a "lion". Bah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Species_extinct_in_the_wild
\u0026lt;--- list of species now extinct in the wild by the Red List
Among the species are Critically Endagered a mess of surprises: Did you know There is the Asian cheetah? Wolf Arabic? Did you know that the Leopard amurense, who lives in the colder areas of Asia, is reduced to less than 40 copies? In order from the Red List and I quote at random turkish leopard, Iberian lynx, the Sumatran tiger, half a dozen wolves and large European cats, like pumas and lynxes. There are two very large whales, an impressive number of primates (gorillas and orangutans above all) an endless supply of bats and die again and again and again and again!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Wolf
back at the Gorilla. This animal was considered Endangered in 2006. In 2007 he moved to Critically Endangered due to poaching and the Ebola virus that is spreading endemically among the few remaining groups of gorillas.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Gorilla_distribution4.png
To give you an idea of the area where they live about 90 thousand gorillas left in the world (one of these, only 300 belong to the subspecies of Cross River Gorilla. Minor problem: the gorillas have a very low rate of reproduction as a female gives birth once every 5-10 years. And 'a mechanism for limiting births, as the gorillas are unlikely to have predators in nature.
I was very curious to see this channel, and I was pleasantly shocked.
movies were shocking. See men literally broken every bone in a shot or crushed by the trunk or head dell'erbivoro by their huge feet, was almost enlightening. The documentary has brought her half an hour to see the few surviving victims of the attacks and their permanent damage (limb deformities, disease, etc ...) and their families desperate. Another movie was that of a trainer and attendant were literally fought head on by this elephant, rolled, thrown away and trodden meters with the trunk.
Now, from my point of view there is much to be menarla. In Asia it is known that there is a big, very big problem of conflict between wildlife and the huge expansion of cities and cultures, especially as the leopards have begun to hunt humans sleeping in New Delhi and tigers attack the livestock of the villages scattered in the jungles of Malaysia. E 'scientifically proven that if an animal can choose between hunting a wild animal and a pet, choose the first. Three
Thus, analyzing the reasons cited above, for me is not so much a mystery that animals attack humans and Cibin of his crops and his livestock. And 'normal, classic, fighting for survival.
1) The food: the man burning the forests for farming. Increasingly, more and more. An elephant eats something like 300 (three hundred) pounds of vegetables per day. Multiplied by the average number of individuals of a herd, that is twenty (but may even reach 50 members) and you will get a frightening amount of food. The forest recedes more and more, and where before there was the heart of the territory of a herd of elephants There is a public hours cornfield. Inevitably, an elephant, if it ends his favorite food and that always chooses cmq in alterntiva to humans, going to raid. The forest is no longer enough to feed them, every night, and farmers fight to defend the harvest. (At least they know of non poter sparare loro e non lo fanno.) 2) Il territorio: La maggior parte degli elefanti che attacca l'uomo sono maschi adulti, giovani, e in calore. Molto ormonati e molto combattivi quindi. L'uomo invade il territorio dell'elefante, lo invade troppo, e ad un certo punto si raggiunge il cosiddetto "punto di rottura" altre il quale l'elefante non accetta più la presenza dell'uomo e si sente minacciato da essa. I maschi hanno una forte rivalità, e quindi distruggono i villaggi, potenzialmente un pericolo per la loro supremazia e per il branco.
3) Vendetta. Molti di voi alzeranno il sorpacciglio perplessi, ma, ahahhah, questa è una cosa che pochi sanno.
Sapete che gli elefanti hanno una delle gerarchie and more complex mentality of the animal kingdom? Roughly we can say that is a kind of matriarchal society where females have control over and decide where to go and when. All females, mothers, aunts and grandmothers as well, contributing to the growth of all children. The dominant male has of course the task of defending the group and trumpet> D
The surprising thing is the complexity of strong emotional ties that develop between these mammals. The death of their fellow gives rise to an incredible demonstration of grief and mourning, and is immensely strong when it is a small die. Approach the dead body and make you get up with light blows of the trunk. The caress and try to move as if to wake him. Everything is well ... human, believe me. Another feature that has
sopredente revolution in the last decade the way you think elephants and their ability to feel emotions and the so-called "post-traumatic stress syndrome" that has been diagnosed in Africa to some very aggressive young males who had attacked and killed humans.
All these individuals were orphans.
Ah, and here the ass falls. Females do not come easy because even if orphans are taken in a pack. Males not, because even if not orphaned, upon reaching sexual maturity are expelled for obvious reasons.
Thus, male orphans, remain alone. Frightened and scared in the middle of the savannah, with no adult to guide them, teach them how to behave in an elephant, to live elephant civil. No one who teaches him the "culture" of being an elephant. Scary parallels of today, do not you?
fact just in the park were introduced and old adult males, they imposed their authority, and soon everything was back to normal, because it is aggregated into a single pack with troubled young people, putting them in line.
The circus elephant that attacked its trainer was a girl when she bought a puppy. 99% the mother was killed during the annual extermination by the "limitation of population growth" of elephants, and sold at a small circus. Given the complex psychology of elephants, emotionally very sensitive, very intelligent and fast learning, it is easy to think that she had reached that breaking point of endurance, beyond which any human being Sbrocchi, kill his jailer, would come out on the streets soloper free run even 5 minutes, smashing everything that's around in anger and pain at the memory of a dead love, only to be killed by police in the middle of a road, but be happy for that. Because he had the balls full of tricks to make the pedestal for a "reward" in tile of hay, with a header when you pull down a tree. And of course that little jailer bastard who likes to make you feel out of balance, not as strong as a tree of the savanna.
One night a herd of elephants in India destroyed an entire village of farmers. The day before the inhabitants were killed, albeit accidentally, a dog of that herd, and had rashly dragged around the village. The elephants destroyed every house to search for, and have not touched anything else, no food, no people.
Personally, my thought was, "Well, these things are already men among them. The elephants have only had more patience." And for an animal that has a gestation period of two years and live on average 70-75, ending patience is not a good sign. For us of course.
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