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I'm woking on a project about species on the verge of extinctions, but couldn't get valid fact to convince my opposing viewpoints and also to get my readers to understand the impact of extinctions on the environment. My question is " How are animals beneficial to mankind?" secondly can human live without animals in the environment? and thirdly what benefits are aquatic organisms such as whales useful to man?.
I'lll be more than grateful if these questions are answered.

zoniaolugu

I think its pretty simple since its clear about life cicle, some spieces cant live without depending on others and may die and others...bla bla and so on, humans also feed and on most animals, also animals produce food for humans and so on....try google search

So..... basically you want us to do your homework for you? OK.

1) How are animals beneficial to mankind?

-Numerous ways. I can think of at least a dozen right off the top of my head. You should be able to as well.

2) Can humans live without animals in the environment?

-This should be obvious: no.

3) How are aquatic organisms such as whales useful to man?

-Well, for one, they have been known to provide temporary accomodation to prophets thrown overboard during storms.

OK, OK. Yes, I am being sarcastic. But come on, Zonia, you can't find any valid facts to support your views? What about this wonderful resource called the Internet, that you are using at this very minute? How about, instead of wandering around and asking people to do things, you actually use the Internet for research?

Let's take whales, for example. I just typed "save whales" (no quotes, just the two words) into Google (Google is your friend), and it came up with 152,000 results! Are all of those going to be useful? Probably not, but plenty of them may be, like this one, or maybe even this one. And, of course, you can't go wrong with Greenpeace when it comes to environmental conservation and saving whales.

See how easy that is? Why don't you try it? Hop over to Google (with the link above), type in some key words (things like "environment," "conservation," etc.) and see what you come up with.

If that doesn't appeal to you, there is a low-tech alternative to the Internet. Granted, there are no hyperlinks, and you can't change the font size or anything, but sometimes they have really nice graphics and are usually full of information. You can find them in old fashioned archives called "libraries."

Now get out there and make us proud.





www.liminality.org

Steak and Lobster.

No no no no no...Chicken. Can't live without chicken.

Oh: Aquatic animals, like plankton, provide the same help to us as trees and plants. Umm...I like smoked salmon. And shark fin soup (When you get past the grisle).

Some search terms - food chain (s), top of the food chain, ecology, endangered species, mass extinction.

That should give you a great starting point.

As for Whales, Master Suho has some great suggestions...you might also consider aquatic ecology.

Now get crackin'!


WebShaman

cows cats dogs
monkeys (how else could we evolve from amube to homo sapiens)
amube (the first animalistic live from where we came....great benefit)

dodo (....too stupid to survive the first encounter with mankind)

etc etc etc....

Or amoeba even.

Is it just me, or is it rather odd that someone's first post in a graphic design forum is a question about species on the verge of extinction....?

It's even odder when it's their first and last post...

I wouldn't say odder, Suho. More like, typical.

When a species that is a large part of the ecology, the ecology takes a big hit when said species suddenly goes away.

Take whales for example. If all the whales left the planet with the dolphins in spaceships, then shrimp would flourish like mad cow disease. The shrimp would deplete their own food source and eventually die out or evolve to eat game show hosts. However you play out the scenerio, it's not pretty (not that I wouldn't mind a few less game show hosts at the mouths of ravenous shrimp).

Well, at least the price of shrimp would drop...

And those off whales will go sky high...



"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

synax: Good point. I suppose it would be even odder if they actually stuck around and began contributing to the community. But I'm a hopeless optimist, what can I say...

Steak and Lobster and Garlic Butter.

I don't know how much impact one species here and there is but I'm sure we would be in trouble if all the animals bit it. I mean, what global impact came with the passing of the Dodo, for instance?

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Bugs: You never know. What if some positive global impact had come from them, or a cure for cancer, or AIDS.

I suppose that's true. And now none of us will ever know. (until the Last Day of course )

Not only that, but the dodo was an animal with a very limited range of habitat. You can't expect too much of a global impact from their loss.

A more globally signifcant animal may have a more globally signficant impact.

jamie: too true.

it makes me wonder what the global impact would be if homosapiens became extinct.

What would be a good example of an animal with a global impact other than us? Do we even know? Can we know? Plankton perhaps?

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it makes me wonder what the global impact would be if homosapiens became extinct.

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A very good one.

Reitsma - that day may not be too far off

i mean, honestly - would there be any negative effects? there are very few animals above us on the food chain - and they can all live off other animals anyways.

and any good things that we've done for the environment have been compensation for the abuse we've given it.

of course, as far as i know, we'll never see that day....

Actually, the human race being extinct would probably do the world some good.

I am struck at how strange it is to conceive of anything having any meaning without us around to talk about things having meaning. In other words, who would be around to care one way or the other?