magicmed
Arachnobaron
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I'll just put my 2 cents in, looks like everyone's got everything about covered, but here's my belief..
Natural extinction as much as I hate to admit it is inevitable for many species of animal, it is increased dramatically by human intervention via destruction of natural habitats and mass collection for food, product, or pet trade. Once an animals natural habitat is beyond repair for that species (whether that be their homes, food source, camouflage, etc) it is just a lost species (in nature)
That does NOT mean that the captive population has to die out. If enough experienced keepers began breeding and relocating the species to like minded hobbiest, then the animals "natural" habitat would essentially become the husbandry of the accepted enclosure. More and more people breed the species, and it becomes a solely captive bred species. Unless you have a TON of space, funds, food, and a crazy ecosystem machine to duplicate the animals natural habitat on a LARGE scale, that's just the only way to go about saving a species with such a selective habitat.
I hope you don't take this as insulting or anything like that, just offering reasons why naturally, some species wI'll just die off and that's turbo charged by humans
Natural extinction as much as I hate to admit it is inevitable for many species of animal, it is increased dramatically by human intervention via destruction of natural habitats and mass collection for food, product, or pet trade. Once an animals natural habitat is beyond repair for that species (whether that be their homes, food source, camouflage, etc) it is just a lost species (in nature)
That does NOT mean that the captive population has to die out. If enough experienced keepers began breeding and relocating the species to like minded hobbiest, then the animals "natural" habitat would essentially become the husbandry of the accepted enclosure. More and more people breed the species, and it becomes a solely captive bred species. Unless you have a TON of space, funds, food, and a crazy ecosystem machine to duplicate the animals natural habitat on a LARGE scale, that's just the only way to go about saving a species with such a selective habitat.
I hope you don't take this as insulting or anything like that, just offering reasons why naturally, some species wI'll just die off and that's turbo charged by humans