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“can I hold my mates hand anymore?”
“Of course you can!”
“Well I couldn’t before!”
*sick piano riff as she holds the humans hand*
“Of course you can!”
“Well I couldn’t before!”
*sick piano riff as she holds the humans hand*
Planet of the apes. right idea wrong species. from what i understand based on casual, and layman look at some of the science. and ignoring the poorly made 'remakes'
foxes, rats, and crows. any one of them if not all three have the capability due to their intelligence level now and their adaptability to the human dominated environment are good contenders for successor species. i know many would think domestic dogs and cats should be on that list, but they may be a bit 'too' dependent. plus anything short of a very slow and drawn out extinction of humans would take both species with us.
foxes, rats, and crows. any one of them if not all three have the capability due to their intelligence level now and their adaptability to the human dominated environment are good contenders for successor species. i know many would think domestic dogs and cats should be on that list, but they may be a bit 'too' dependent. plus anything short of a very slow and drawn out extinction of humans would take both species with us.
Well in PotA the cats and dogs all died off of mysterious illness, kinda solving that.
Raccoons out to be on the list too.
Raccoons out to be on the list too.
Well. Of the domesticated species cats show the highest proclivity towards adapting to a feral life-style and regions like europe still have significant populations of wild cats which have shown no hostility to their domesticated offshoots. I would assume that while the population would free-fall, they would over time simply mix into the wild populations. I expect similar from Ferrets mixing in with Polecat populations. Dogs are more likely to be replaced by wolves, but aren't out of the question to form feral packs in areas lacking competitors.
Note that this describes their odds of survival, not whether they have the intelligence to actually function as a successor.
Note that this describes their odds of survival, not whether they have the intelligence to actually function as a successor.
it entirely depends on how fast humans are taken off the scene.
if it's slow, people may release their pets to have a slim chance out in the wild. really slim to be honest a cat or dog who's lived as an indoor pet well into their adult hood generally don't survive outside of a rare instance or two. people who kept them outdoors or let them roam may fair better but not much. mainly because they still depend on humans for food. a lot of feral cats and dogs do to. either from our trash, or passerby handouts.
If it's fast, most likely 98 to even 99% of the domestic population will die a horrible slow death of starvation as they remain trapped in homes and no one to let them out.
if it's slow, people may release their pets to have a slim chance out in the wild. really slim to be honest a cat or dog who's lived as an indoor pet well into their adult hood generally don't survive outside of a rare instance or two. people who kept them outdoors or let them roam may fair better but not much. mainly because they still depend on humans for food. a lot of feral cats and dogs do to. either from our trash, or passerby handouts.
If it's fast, most likely 98 to even 99% of the domestic population will die a horrible slow death of starvation as they remain trapped in homes and no one to let them out.
<2% seems woefully unrealistic. Like you would need humanity to go extinct everywhere in the middle of the night with absolutely nobody having even a window slightly open for that to be a possibility. In practice though the odds are that in a good chunk of the world a decent population of domestic predators have access to the outside world or even are outside if the sudden extinction occurs. Not to mention how in rural regions species like cats are normally quite outdoors already. About 10% of the local population don't even really live indoors really. I'd assume survival to be at least close if not in the double digits and that a bigger threat to continued survival of the species in question is due to how we spay & neuter them.
I leave the cause so wide and open ended because at least in the case of this submission over the planet of the apes, the stupid remake made it a fast kill virus that was more or less overnight once it started spreading.
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