200 years later, the largest terrestrial mammal could be cattle

Recently, a study has discovered alarming facts: while people are proliferating and spreading throughout the nook and cranny of the globe, large animals quickly become extinct where they are. The giant animals like, sloths (the size equivalent to elephants), countless fauna and cat animals have ever raged on the surface of the earth from 2.6 million to 12,000 years ago.

'The disappeared species are usually two to three times larger than mammals that survive today, and this trend is happening globally , ' Reuters quoted the reporter as Professor Felisa Smith. of the University of New Mexico (USA). For that reason, most of these days are smaller than the typical size of the animal community thousands of years ago.

Ancient people were able to hunt mammoths for meat and fur.(PHOTO: 76 OCEAN / SCIENCE).

'A recurring paradigm over the past thousand years is how far the immigrant entails extinction in the animals there,' said Professor Smith. People prefer to hunt large animals for meat, while smaller species such as gnawing escape, according to the results of a trend analysis study over 125,000 years. For example, in North America, the average weight of terrestrial mammals has decreased from 95kg to 7.6kg after humans arrived in the continent.

If such a trend continues, 'cattle are more likely to become the largest mammal on the ground in two hundred years', according to a report published in the journal Science.

That means elephants, giraffes, hippos will disappear. In March 2018, the last male of the northern white rhino in the world died in Kenya.

In a new development, Asian elephants are facing the danger of extinction after the Elephant Family, based in the UK, warned of the tendency to favor elephant leather. Slaughtering elephants further speeds up the risk of Asia cleaning the elephant, because now not only adult elephants are killed for ivory, but any individual can be poached for skin, from male elephants and elephants. one to the elephant.

According to Elephant Family statistics, there are only 2,000 wild elephants left in Myanmar. The number of poached elephants increased sharply from 26 in 2013 to at least 61 in 2016, and many elephants were thrown away in a state of skin loss, according to Reuters.

In short, Professor Smith drew a very bleak perspective.The body size of mammals globally will return to the condition 40 million years ago. No one else, it is people who cause dangerous and mass extinctions, and this impact is not entirely a normal development in the evolution of organisms on Earth.