What causes animal extinction?

Question

What causes animal extinction?

Answer 1

the passenger pideon numbers in the tens of millions and in 50 years was exstinct due solely to human consumption..

we definately play a large role

Answer 2

While environment, disease and climate change have an influence, take a look in the real world and PEOPLE come up by and large as the biggest killers of things over the centuries.

Answer 3

The species that preys on a particular animal may have a population boom.

Or the animal may lose it's food supply or become exposed to disease.

Human intervention can cause famine, disease or a change in climate that makes it so the animal can't survive...

There are a whole lot of different factors.

Answer 4

Many things may cause animal extinction..

Here are a few:

1 Disease

2 Famine

3 Natural disaster

4 Poaching

5 Inability to adapt to changing worldly conditions

6 Etc.

Answer 5

Hunting

Climate Change

Cutting off food resources

Famine

Disease

People just hurting them for no reason

Answer 6

Habitat loss / Development - urbanization, agriculture, & mining

Pollution

Unregulated or illegal killing / overexploitation

Introduced Species / Exotic Species

Competition from other species

Disease / Parasites

Predation

Limited distribution

etc

Answer 7

We do - Mankind....

Answer 8

heaps of stuff loss of habitat loss of food inablitiy to mate, anything that'll kill and entire species

Answer 9

Extinction is a natural part of evolution.

There is always a domino effect that basically comes down to an inability to adapt.