if an entire lynx population disappears, what is likely happen to the hare population on which it prey?
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The hare population would increase exponentially in the absence of its predator.  It would not increase without bound, though.  It would only increase until it reaches the maximum that the local resources (space, water, edible plants) can support, and then it will level out.
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Most systems, when left alone, will tend to come to a "steady state" or be at rest.  In the case of balancing the ecosystem, overpopulation is a situation that I tend to think would eventually be controlled by the environment.\n\nAs an example, consider bacteria and viruses for which not everyone is immune nor is there necessarily a vaccine.  The increase in population ensures: a) that there are more hosts for these agents to travel; and b) that the agent doesn't have that far to travel, so it does so quickly.  Epidemics have a way of balancing out overpopulation.\n\nIn some cases, people make the mistake of introducing some 'agents' (not necessarily viruses, but such as in a recent case with toads) into an environment in which they help control the population in one aspect, but then the agent itself overpopulates.  Eventually, as it runs out of food (unless it has several plentiful sources in the environment to which it's been transplanted) it too will experience a loss in population.
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The lynx was first discovered by The Division Of Wild Life on FEB.4. \n\nIf you want details on the lynx, why don't you check out the site below???????Just check out the link and you will surely get details on the lynx.
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Depending on how young the baby is, it probably won't survive long without its mother.\n\nAny other baby possums left behind will have the same problem - so it's more likely you'll find a sad, stinky little former baby possum some day.\n\nHowever, it's likely that the one you saw is the only one.  If more than one fell off, the cat probably would have cornered them all in the same hiding spot.  It's unlikely they would have split up.\n\nIf the mother had dropped her entire litter, she probably wouldn't have been as willing to cut and run either, and would probably come back for them.
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The Do-Do is a well known extinction, they died out because the people ate them all. Predators got to their eggs and there wasn't any kind of conservation going on then.
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Neat Question!!!!\n\nHere's your answer:\n\nIf the Moon disappeared then the tides would reduce in strength by about two thirds. There would still be tides, because the Sun causes tides, too (see the Conjunctions Page). \n\nThe Moon keeps the angle between the rotation axis of the Earth and the plane of the orbit of the Earth within a fairly narrow range, so that the strength of the seasons cannot differ too much from its current value. If the Moon disappeared, then the inclination of the rotation axis of the Earth would vary much more over periods of thousands of years and could get much further away from the upright position, with corresponding greater differences between summer and winter, and hence with great influence on the climate, such as Mars has experienced (without any large moon). See http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1993Natur.361..615L, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002A%26A...384..689E and http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112399 (for http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001EM%26P...85...61B). \n\nI've heard of kinds of animals that synchronize some rhythms of their lives with the phases of the Moon, and the sudden disappearance of the Moon could cause trouble for them. I believe I've heard of some kinds of turtles that come to lay their eggs on the beach at a certain Full Moon, and that the nightlife of deer and similar animals takes the phase of the Moon into account. In any case, fishermen and hunters seem to take the phase of the Moon into account, but perhaps that is because they would like to be able to see something at night. I am not a biologist, fisherman, or hunter, so I do not know the details of this. \n\nIt is highly unlikely that the Moon will just disappear. Only the very close passage of a celestial object of the size of a planet could wrench the Moon from the grip of the Earth's gravity, and such an event could also change the orbit of the Earth itself markedly, so then the disappearance of the Moon might not be the most important thing. Calculations of the future of the orbits of the planets show that such an event will not happen during the coming thousands of millions of years (at least not with one of the other planets of our Solar System as the disturbing object). See http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002MNRAS.336..483I and http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1996CeMDA..64..115L.
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Predators will eat just about anything, but it's unlikely that a coyote or anything else would just eat the genitalia and then walk away from a feast like that.  If not aliens, the most likely candidate would be people. Either pranksters toying with her, or the woman herself, possibly to continue her hoax.  I've heard crazier things.  So the latter isn't too unlikely.\n\nujjwal, what are you, like ten?  Does your mother know what you're doing?
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The experimental fragmentation of landscapes of a natural ecosystem resulted in declines in the abundance and distribution of most species in the multispecies animal community inhabiting the landscapes and the extinction of many species. These declines caused the deterioration of the positive interspecific relation between local population abundance and distributional extent in this community. However, when patches were connected by habitat corridors, an immigration "rescue effect" arrested declines in both abundance and distribution and maintained the observed positive relation between them. These results demonstrate the importance of metapopulation dynamics and landscape connectivity for the persistence of populations in fragmented landscapes.
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Not a lot of real info:\n\nThreats and Reasons for Decline:\n\nThe hairy-eared dwarf lemur is caught in traps in the forest and eaten by inhabitants of the area where it is found. This plus deforestation of its habitat for agriculture and logging are the major reasons for its decline.\n\nAllocebus trichotis functions very well in its aboreal environment. With its small size it is able to out-climb most predators. Although data on predation rates are not available, likely predators include herpestids, viverids, and humans.
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You get rid of all the balance on our planet!  It would mess up the ecosystem and the food chain therefore all the living creatures on Earth, including people.  Everything effects everything else.  I imagine that they weather would go crazy or at least not function like we know it.  The domino effect would go out of control.  Unless, our planet could find another way of keeping the balance we are all screwed.
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Bobcats hunt mostly small anmals such as rabbits and hares. They also will hunt porcupines, squirrels, groundhogs...etc. Sick or injurled large animals such as White Tailed deer would probably be the largest they hunt, but only if they are easy prey.\nIf they can catch it, and it's not too big, they'll most likely eat it.
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Polar bears are getting there proverbial cold-asses whupped ! Stranded on ice-floes,mother and cubs are separated,the cubs become easy prey and are subject to starvation. Their population is decreasing fast. Also, I understand that there is,or would be an affect to global warming,..green-house gases...ozone layer...stuff like that  \nand us..\nPeace.
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I believe the last sighting was in the late 70's.\n\nSo it's possible. But lack of sightings is not proof that they are yet extinct.
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i would say b)\n\nbecause new wolves might bring new problems like different diseases or prey on other animals, which would screw the ecosystem over even more! at least with letting the moose reach carrying capacity, you know that nothing new is being introduced into the area, and when the moose population crashes, the plants and things that the moose effect will have some time to recover before the next period of moose overpopulation.
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You get a sleeping Hare. Ha Ha
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A Lynxes ear tufts enhance thier hearing, acting kind of like antenna to pick up vibrations in the air. The reason why they have ear tufts is because of natural selection, the tufts give them an advantage in hunting so it is a desirable trait. There are other theories but they are not supported by evidence. One is that the tufts keep the lynxes ears from freezing in winter, but the Caracal also has ear tufts and does not experience winter, again it has also been supposed that the tufts help to confuse thier primary prey (Snowshoe hare) because they resemble rabbit ears, again the Caracal(desert lynx) who also has ear tufts does not hunt hares. The reason why they are black is anybody's guess it probably has to do with visibility and camoflage.
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The first step would be a really big die-off and a collapse of civilization.  Other than slowly acquiring some negative traits, not much will happen in terms of physical evolution in the mean time.\n\nAfter this die-off, we will find ourselves in a world without the megafauna alongside of which we initially evolved.  These animals have since gone extinct.  Our food will have to be smaller and more frequent instead of big and less frequent.  As a result, I would predict a reduction in body size to more efficiently utilize resources from small to medium sized prey.