"With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?"

all the other creatures on this planet would be a lot better off without humans around. All we're doing in polluting the air and water, and taking away their habitat.

Yes, if anything the gorilla should thrive without man poaching.

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Maybe in another 100 million years, or a little less.

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OK how come you can't super size the icons?

I don't know, but if you figure out how to let me know, ok.

My monkeeeeee minions say yes
My majik 8 Ball says ask again later

*ROCKMAN bows to Mandy*

gorilla, then?

with man gone, there would be hope for everything!!!!!

*looks in mirror, nose getting wider, hair growing everywhee* *damn I'm reversing in time*

Yes, there is. More trees will grow. So, I interpret this question on conservation.
I don't know if they're cut out in evolutionary terms. I envisage rats will take over the planet next.

I would think gorillas would do much better without us. No more poachers, no more society encroaching on their land.....

I assume it means that gorillas will be safe from poaching, from having their environment infringed upon, etc. Or it could mean that gorillas would have the chance to be top primate.

There's always hope.

I your answer, too!!

Man IS gorilla

I don't believe that gorillas are capable of hope and with humanity gone, I believe that the only species on the planet that *is* capable of feeling hope will have disappeared leaving gorillas to the mercy of ebola.

Not true.

Eh?

Oh I wish I could remember the joke...but that's what I was doing making a silly comment hmmm monkeying around you could say

man this page is giving me a flashback!!

Depends which men.

But the earth WOULD be better off without humans around...we're a pest!

We're animals and we're part of the Earth's ecosystem. Take us away and the Earth's balance would shift dramatically - our extinction would likely lead to the extinction of thousands of other species. We have a bad effect on lots of species, but so do most animals! Of course we should work harder at conservation, as much for our own sake as the other species, but that doesn't mean that the world would necessarily be a better place without us on it.

yes! Ecology isn't about bad bad humans! is about balance not forcing one way or the other.

We have taken ourselves out of the Earth's ecosystem by breaking the very rules that made this ecosystem work in the first place. We manipulate food and animals to suit our needs, so in a sense it is us who dictate what lives and what doesn't. No other animal has taken control of the Earth's ecosystem. They all play by the rules that make it balanced. Therefore with man gone, it would all go back to the way it was before (until some other stupid-greedy species comes up and decides to make the world's their own).

Yes, definitly. If a virus/nuclear war/asteroid was to wipe out humankind, its pretty certain that another species would evolve to fill our niche. The chimpanzee is the best bet to do this IMHO. Even if they were wiped out too, its reckoned that as a colony of as few as 50 rats remaining could evolve intelligence within just 3 million years.

"They all play by the rules that makes it balanced"? I'm sorry but that's hippy pseudo-biology! The constraints that act on other species still act on us, we're just by far the best competitors on the planet. Many other species manipulate other organisms, perhaps not to the extent that we do, but they still do it.

We *can't* take ourselves out of the Earth's ecosystem. Not unless we all decide to live in glass domes or terraform the moon!

"With man gone it would all go back to the way that it was before" Not true - like I said before, our extinction would trigger the extinctions of thousands of other species.

I think not.