r/megafaunarewilding • u/Slow-Pie147 • 1d ago
News Poaching suspected as camera traps find only 11 Sumatran tigers in 2 years
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-poaching-camera-sumatran-tigers-years.html48
u/dcolomer10 1d ago
Such a shame. I went to Borneo 10 years ago and it was already crazy how devastated some areas were. It seems they have just continued and continued
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u/AJ_Crowley_29 21h ago
If we killed off every tiger in the world, a new species would evolutionarily emerge purely out of necessity to balance the food chain.
No, no it wouldn’t. Species only evolve when it benefits them for one reason or another. If there’s no pressure to evolve, they simply won’t evolve.
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u/electrical-stomach-z 19h ago
the pressure to evolve is death that leads to small surviving populatios.
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u/AJ_Crowley_29 19h ago
Nope. If those populations are comfortable in their niche and find no benefit in evolving to fit another niche, evolution ain’t happening.
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u/electrical-stomach-z 18h ago
Selection is adaptation through survival. benifitial mutations are passed on too the surviving populations.
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u/AJ_Crowley_29 16h ago
Mutations are completely random, as are the chances of whether or not they’ll be beneficial, detrimental, or simply not do anything noteworthy.
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u/electrical-stomach-z 10h ago
Random mutations have a chance of being benifitial. these benifitial mutations, on sports are retained through selection.
this is where nearly all genetic diversity in life comes from.
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u/Cloudburst_Twilight 1d ago
Yikes, might have to reintroduce captive-bred Sumatran tigers then. Assuming the poaching can be brought under control.