This is the list of criteria that I would go over if I had to consider an animal needed to be saved.
1- Does it contribute to keeping the population of another organism low?
2- Does it provide something to another organism? (E.g. Spider's silk, cow milk, etc.)
3- Does it critically impact the environment?
4- Does it support a food chain?
5- Does it keep another animal alive? (E.g. symbiosis, etc)
6- Is it interesting to look at or cute?
Does the Giant Panda fit this criterion? Yes, I think that it does. Basically, I am going on if the animal fits a majority of the criteria. This is the yes/no answers to the criteria.
1- Yes (Bamboo)
2- Yes (Research on the lifestyle of most other bears that share its lifestyle)
3- Yes (It keeps the fast spreading bamboo at a low)
4- Yes (It eats bamboo and is one of the only things that do)
5- No (It is the apex of its territory)
6- Yes (Definitely)
The five other animals that I did were Siamese Crocodile, Takhi, Hawaiin Monk Seal, Sumatran Orangutan, and Axolotl.
Their criteria ratings will be listed in the order below as they were just given.
1- Yes (It eats many mammals that drink from rivers it lives in)
2- No (They do not give any resource or material)
3- Yes (It keeps the population low of many animals that live around it)
4- Yes (It eats many fish and mammals)
5- Yes (Symbiosis with some birds allow them to eat from cleaning crocodile's teeth)
6- No (They are scaly and don’t look very friendly)
1- Yes (It eats many plants around its territory)
2- No (They do not give any resource or material)
3- No (It keeps the grasses around its habitat low)
4- Yes (It eats grasses and carnivores eat it)
5- Yes (Apex predators feed off of it)
6- Yes (They look like a fat horse)
1- Yes (It eats much fish in the sea around it)
2- Yes (They provided their hide, a reason for their extinction)
3- No (It is not that big of a contributor to the decline of fishes populations)
4- Yes (It eats many fish and sharks, did, eat it)
5- Yes (It was a primary food source of some sharks)
6- Yes (It is blubbery and is really sleek looking)
1- Yes (It eats many berries and keeps the berries from spreading more rapidly)
2- Yes (It has homes in the trees that another animal can use after them)
3- Yes (It keeps the trees at a limit and it provides homes for other animals)
4- Yes (It eats many of the berries and fruits in the forest)
5- No (They are very independent)
6- Yes (They are red and furry)
1- No (They are very solitary and docile creatures)
2- Yes (They provide many different types of research to science)
3- Yes (It was the apex predator of its environment and kept fish populations down)
4- Yes (It consumes many small fish and birds eat it)
5- Yes (Many birds, including Herons, eat it)
6- Yes! (Basically a Mudkip, adorable)
Now I am going to be discussing several other things that I am supposed to be talking about. The first thing is why extinction is a problem for human survival. The main reason that I think that extinction is a big problem for human survival is that things that critically support humans, like bees, cows, etc., provide so many resources for humans that they rely on them. The second thing that I need to talk about is why I chose the criteria I chose for above. I chose the first piece of criteria because that is something that all animals should do so that things don't begin to overpopulate (Like humans). The second criteria were because all animals, including humans, should be providing for another animal so that it can survive as well as that animal. The third criteria were chosen because it is similar to why humans should clean up their trash after they do something. This keeps the world prettier and less abundant of a certain resource. The fourth criterion was chosen because if the animal solely eats on a thing and so many other animals also eat that, then that animal does not really need to be there. This is unless there is an animal that eats these animals. The fifth criterion was chosen because most if an animal supports the life of another animal then that boosts both of those animals likeliness of survival and shows scientists what their behavior towards other animals are. The final criteria, if the animal was cute/interesting or not, was put in there because not many people are going to really want to help that animal if they don’t have some reason to like it.
The next thing that I have to talk about is whether the Giant Panda fits the criteria I listed and if it is worth saving. The Giant Panda’s rating for the criteria is at the beginning of this article and on whether I think that the Giant Panda should be saved is, yes, the Giant Panda should be saved. It is an amazing animal and is one of the best animals at keeping the bamboo rates down. The last thing that I have to do is explain why my highest ranked animal is threatened and what we can do to save it. I had three animals that got the same scores on the criteria and out of them I choose to do the Axolotl as the animal I would like to save. The Axolotl is endangered because of pollution of the only place it lives naturally in, the Xochimilco lake. This lake is being polluted because of the city of Mexico that is right beside that has factories that let off very dangerous waste into the lake. The solution I believe would work to save these animals would be to start a clean up in the lake where people will take out animals and clean them off and start to remove the sludge at the bottom of the lake. The factories would also need to have another place to put their waste. The animals could be put somewhere safe for them while their home is being cleaned and after it is clean, then they could be put back into the lake.
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