Are Humans an invasive species?
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- Are Humans an invasive species?
I know this gets thrown out alot, but no one really dives into it, so here i am to take the plunge.
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Europeans were kinda invasive lol but i think Denisovan and Neanderthal people probably found us Homosapiens to be invasive as well!
And where did they come from? You can always keep going back
Well we had sexytime with many neanderthal so they probably didnt get that mad you know 😅
@@dnareptiles95 they came from Earth, but now a lot of us mostly dwell in cyberspace 😅
Europeans are still human LOL and of course they originated from Earth
Invasive species are animals that wouldn't be there without some kind of outside intervention, humans we would be there without any intervention unless aliens showed up and dropped us somewhere else, because we just like how any animal would have the ability to go there if we want to.
@@beepboop204he means where did they travel from to get there. We don't know tht they have been there forever
I'm sure the Native Americans would say " yes" 😅
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I define it as
Non-native: A non-native organism with no positive or negative impacts (dandelions)
Invasive: A non-native organism with negative impacts(kudzu)
Immigrated: a organism that got to a new environment by its own means (Caninae “Leptocyon”from North America over the Bering Strait to Asia)
Reintroduce: a organism that was regionally extinct but was brought back by humans (muskoxen in Alaska)
Introduce: A non-native organism with positive impacts (autumn olive provides fruit to native birds)
Naturalized- A non-native organism that integrates to a given ecosystem (dingos in Australia)
So I’ll consider humans as an immigrated species because we got to places on our own terms even if the first people deviated local environments like in the New World or Australia when they first arrived. There’s also weird cases like horse in North America. The genus Equus evolved there but the domesticated horse evolved in Eurasia so some people claim that they’re native. I don’t really agree with that, I do agree that feral horses are beneficial to most North America ecosystem but they only got back to the continent by human means so I’ll consider them an introduced species. This is like me advocating the introduction of pythons to Europe just because that’s where they first evolved.
Those are actually some great definitions and examples!
I think the best way the think of invasive versus non-native / exotic is there abilities to proliferate unaided. An invasive is a species that without any help they will proliferate out of control and take over environments. While a simple non-native or an exotic is like an animal that would require assistance from people to proliferate, because the native species of plants and animals can deal with them just fine so they'll either die off on their own without human intervention or they will never raise up all the certain level and spread much without human assistance. Like I used to have these exotic bushes in my yards that if I didn't help those bushes they would have been killed off by the native plants a long time ago and these bushes were all from Asia. It's like if you tried to say introduce polar bears to Africa you know you might be able to keep some alive there with assistance making them non-native and exotic but they would never be able to survive on their own in the wild cuz it's just two different of an environment to what their adapted to, but if they could magically somehow do that and they just multiplied and just took over the environment then they would be invasive
Sometimes you look for things and it's always right under your nose.... Like looking for aliens and finding out we are them the whole time
Roughly around 3:00 "Introduced as the result of deliberate or accidental human activity". Does a human walking to a place, that they were not naturally found in before, fall into the definition of deliberate or accidental human activity? Therefore making humans non-native anywhere except for the African Continent. Following this logic the natural conclusion you could come to is that humans are also invasive due to the sometimes permanent damage that they do to many ecosystems. I'm not trying to be contrarian to your point in the video but I'm trying to find out what you do or don't include in human activity.
i think the way to cheat on this is to say that humans are natural to The Earth and while we have created a lot of cyberspace and artificial reality, we are still tied to The Earth........ what happens when we get into space? or onto other planets? that might radically alter our conditions.
whenever i play, watch, or read, science fiction involving things like teraforming, it makes me wonder about how massively invasive it would be for humans to completely rewrite the ecology of a alien world just to fit our requirements 👀
You can make that argument, but the problem is that any other animal is native to the area it first evolved from then got to on its own. Nonnative means humans brought it there. If humans got to a place on there own, wouldn't that be a natural expansion of there range? Nonnative means it had to get there with the help of something else directly or indirectly. Humans cover the globe all on there own.
@@dnareptiles95 i think there is some evidence for storms/currents moving some plants or animals around, but really, humans are unparalleled in our intentional or unintentional movement of plants and animals, as well as bacteria and viruses. yay humans!?!? 😬
Lower birth rate.... Covid-19 in combination with fentanyl overdoses, high rates of depression and obesity... Plus the wars on Earth recently as a whole
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I don't know sometimes we do that, and sometimes we don't. I'm not sure though. I have anxiety problems about somethings. I worry about the environment sometimes and sometimes I don't.😅
I get it
No problem Travis, you will make it through. Just believe in you self 💪🐻❄️
humans have massive transformative powers, but also a tendency towards seeing natural things as "standing reserve". like, a waterfall isnt a waterfall, a forest isnt a forest....... they are hydroelectric power, they are timber to be sold, etc. for me, those are the most troubling sort of person, especially when they think their deity gave them "dominion" over the Earth, but plenty of people who dont have a deity think the exact same way :(
@@Ron_De_Vous thank you!
@@beepboop204 yeah I get what you're saying thank you for your comment. We do have a lot of power in our choices weather it's good or bad.
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We are a dominate species but we can also heal and destroy either way mother nature will have her way with us one day.
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