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Palm oil plantations may have brought revenue into the country, but theyve caused a multitude of problems of well. From fire induced deforestation to shrunken orangutan populations, the environmental impact of palm oil plantations is nothing short of overwhelming. Yet canada goose coats a small canada goose black friday sale team of Canada Goose Jackets researchers from the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) project has revealed another consequence that no one could have seen coming: a rash of gigantic lizards skulking about land disturbed areas. Twining explains that he and his colleagues uncovered this disturbing fact while conducting a study on Borneos scavenger communities. Scavengers are an important but Canada Goose online often overlooked group in understanding how ecosystems function. They provide vital services including the removal of carrion, which is a crucial component canada goose store in recycling nutrients and preventing disease. 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Conversely, their numbers appeared to decrease as the researchers moved deeper into the forests.In fact, the Malay civet was the only native mammal recorded alongside water monitors in oil palms at all, and even this species preferred higher quality forest sites, Twining says, then adds: Of Borneos large native buy canada goose jacket scavengers, canada goose deals they are the only species that has successfully adapted to the plantations.Considering how Southeast Asian water monitors are built, its no wonder that they can thrive where other animals cant. canada goose For one, they can eat almost anything that https://www.gooseyou.com can fit within their stomachs. Frogs, fish, crabs, snakes, rodents, and even other water monitors are all fair game to them. They can even devour carrion with little issue. These have no qualms about consuming human refuse either, as observed by the researchers, who found water monitors that had eaten instant noodle wrappers.For another, palm oil plantations are near canadian goose jacket inhospitable for mammal scavengers and predators like sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), smooth coated otters (Lutrogale perspicillata), and Canada Goose Parka Malay civets. These mammals are unable to adapt to the lack of shade and diminished plant diversity, while Southeast Asian water monitors dont mind the heat and can easily live off of human refuse. Moreover, the constant and rich food supply can allow water monitors to grow in both population number and size.A landscape filled with roaming giant lizards soon becomes a battle arena, says Twining, who elaborates that Southeast Asian water monitors would settle their dispute by standing on their hind legs then wrestling, biting, and clawing at each other until one of them submits. This survival Canada Goose Outlet of the toughest is what drove the males of the species to reach such formidable sizes.Yet despite it all, the palm oil plantations have been deemed ecological traps by the researchers. Readily available food could entail a greater ratio of male to female water monitors, resulting in more fights that put male water monitors at risk of serious buy canada goose jacket cheap injury and increased energy canada goose clearance expenditure. The higher densities of Southeast Asian water monitors could also boost the chances of adult members of canada goose coats on sale the species cannibalizing the juveniles. Even though the animals seem healthy at the moment, there remains the possibility that the researchers predictions may become the reality.Twining concludes: Of Borneos large native scavengers, they are the only species that has successfully adapted to the plantations. But, in the long run, due to the culmination of adverse effects, water monitors may be doomed to the same fate as the bears and other mammals that once inhabited the space now dominated by oil palms. (Related: Shocking: Orangutans to be extinct in just 10 years?)And if hardy scavengers like the Southeast cheap Canada Goose Asian water monitor arent exempt from the negative environmental impacts of industrial agriculture, what more the weaker animal species of Borneo? Moreover, whos to say that these effects wont soon be felt by the nations human population? The way things are going, its only a matter of time until it all comes to a head.
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