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Lions, however, are not only the largest cats in the latitude of average weight on earth, but also the only cats that show both sexes, and currently live mainly in Asia and Africa. The data show that the number of lions has decreased by nearly half in the past twenty years. Although hunting by humans is rare at present, the species itself faces environmental problems such as the destruction of natural habitats and natural diseases, so African lions have been listed as vulnerable species, while Asian lions are listed as endangered species.
You know, the accumulation of a large number of animal carcasses can easily lead to plague. In ancient human society, the meat of tigers and lions that died not long ago may be shared. Of course, if the lion is attacked to death by a large crocodile-Nile crocodile, then this delicious food naturally has no possibility of falling into the mouths of other animals, even scavengers waiting to reap the benefits of fishermen.
Wild tigers and lions in nature are completely animals at the top of the food chain. Only young or sickly individuals can be attacked and hunted by other social animals. At other times, if there is no human hunting, most of them can die of natural aging or be injured by powerful people in the group.
Why are tropical forests easily covered with miasma? In fact, it is because animals are not buried after they die, and then release all kinds of harmful gases in the process of decomposition.
Needless to say, how powerful tigers and lions are alive, but when they die, they can only be slaughtered by other animals, because no matter how powerful animals are, there will be no similar kind to bury their bodies after they die, so they can only be the end of the wilderness.
After death, the bodies of tigers and lions will be eaten by other carnivores in the environment first, and whoever eats them will see them first.
Carnivores eat the remains of tigers and lions, or bodies that have not been found but have begun to rot, so it is the turn of scavengers. These carrion-eating animals are different from ordinary animals, such as wolverines, hyenas and vultures, which mainly rely on those carrion in nature to survive.
In terms of ecological status, scavengers are decomposers. Snails and earthworms that are easier to see at ordinary times are actually scavengers. The most important significance of their existence for the ecological environment is to accelerate the decomposition of animal carcasses and avoid causing living animals to be infected with pathogenic viruses.
The habits of tigers and lions are very different. If they are not in estrus and mating period, tigers usually move alone and can travel dozens of kilometers to find food. But now the existing number of tigers is very small. As early as 20 16 years, data showed that the total number of all wild tigers on the earth was less than 4,000, which has become a veritable endangered animal.
Therefore, at present, the protection of tigers has been relatively strong, so if wild tigers die, there are generally professionals to deal with them, and there will be no other carnivores.
It is undeniable that the production and living activities of human beings in recent hundreds of years have indeed further aggravated the development trend of global warming. It is true that some human beings deliberately hunt wild animals for their own selfish desires, but it cannot be regarded as the culprit of the disappearance of one species after another on the earth. Before humans evolved from forest apes to homo sapiens, there have been more than five mass extinctions on the earth in the past four billion years, and even dinosaurs that once dominated the earth for more than 100 million years have become biological fossils. The cause of these events, in fact, has not yet been clarified by human beings. It may be the relationship between climate or the collision between the earth and other cosmic objects such as asteroids.
Now we have to think about how to maintain the current ecological environment of the earth, and those wild animals that are likely to leave us in the near future are actually a vital part of the earth's ecosystem. The disappearance of a species may not have an intuitive impact on everyone's life, but with more and more species disappearing, it means that the earth's environment has become increasingly unsuitable for known creatures to thrive, and we humans are one of many creatures on earth after all, even though we seem to have smarter minds.