Are humans the only animals that destroy their environment?

Question

Are humans the only animals that destroy their environment?

Answer 1

Definitely not.  But they are the only ones who recognize when they are doing it, and then change their behavior.

Answer 2

Practically YES, unfortunately  

Answer 3

No, introduced species wreck the enviroment they are intoduced to. But that's indirectly by humans.

Answer 4

Goats do a pretty good job of making deserts.

Locust swarms eat so much that if they stay in one place they starve.

Answer 5

Not really. Introduced/Invasive species do that as well, but in a much smaller scale.

But in such a scale that humans are doing right now, yes. No other organism matches our destructiveness.

Answer 6

It depends on what you mean by "destroy". If you count it as causing complete chaos and disruption of the biosphere, then no, because things like red tides and swarms of locust do that too. But if you mean making the environment completely uninhabitable by 99.99% of living things out there, then yes humans are the only ones.

Answer 7

try thinking about it.  You obviously haven't.  If I were to say "infection", would that answer your question?

Answer 8

Ever left a dog in the house for 48 hours? There you go.