How would the environment, habitat, or ecosystem be affected if whooping cranes were extinct?
Whooping cranes ARE a part of the food chain..every animal on the planet is....Nata has NO clue what they are talking about. And I HAVE seen a whooping crane before..in the wild while working in Florida. Only 6 existed on the refuge I was working on and I was lucky enough to see 4 of them. It is something I will never forget! If we lost this bird, the animals it feeds on may increase in numbers causing plagues, and other birds that may live and feed in similar habitats may become too plentiful as well since they would have no competition from the cranes. Those birds could in turn wipe out other species. There are also many changes that might take place that we could not even guess at...until it actually happened. This is often the case as we still do not have a great understanding of how one species affects another. But all species DO affect one another, think of each species as a link in a chain, or a strand in a spider web. If you start snipping strands in a web, or damaging or breaking links, what do you think will happen. They will weaken and collapse and eventually fall apart.
Are Whooping Cranes Extinct
There would be no more whooping cranes for one thing. There would be a gap in the food chain and whet ever feeds off of them could go extinct if they have to have them. What ever the cranes ate might over breed if not held in check and if they are harmful might cause an epidemic that could upset the balance of power in the ecosystem of Florida. All this is speculation but anytime any species disappears it is gone forever and anything can happen.
the whopoping crane is not a part of the food chain. Nothing would happen. 100 birds is not a pencil point in the data. We spend millions on this bird and it's lose would NOT be noticed by anyone. I'll bet not one person on this form has even seen one, can tell us what is food chain function is. A link to a post or wikpedia won't cut it either, I want the exact species that is in the chain both up and down and what the exact effect would be. Since no one can give a specific chapter and versus on the specifics and talk about genaerizations, IMHO, I'm correct. NOW If the question was about the loss of all Raptors in the world, there would be an upset. The Whooping crane in it's self is so small it's impact of lose is zero. I call BS on the poster that says she saw them in FL. NOT ONE SINGLE WEB site lists FL as it's home range. You could at least have gone to Wiki and gotten your facts right and answered my AP question, but you instead tried a red herring act to promote your bias. PS I've been to the AP and know all about them (clue tell us what I meant here and prove you are a player on this subject)
