Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Zimmer, Carl (06/05/2013), Freeing Animals From Our Evolutionary Traps, National Geographic, Retrieved on 2013-06-05Source Material [phenomena.nationalgeographic.com]
Folksonomies: evolution Memes
05 JUN 2013
Examples of Evolutionary Traps
We have altered the environment in a vast number of ways, both small and large. And when animals try to read the cues from our human environment, they can get tricked. They can end up doing something that kills them, loses them the opportunity to reproduce, or simply wastes their time. Scientists call these situations evolutionary traps. [...] Some evolutionary traps, like the Christmas lights, play on the visual strategies animals use to find prey. Albatrosses will peck at brightly colored...Folksonomies: evolution maladaptation
Folksonomies: evolution maladaptation
Frogs that swallow christmas lights, turtles that eat plastic bags, and beetles laying eggs in timber fallen for lumber are examples of animals falling into dead ends thanks to humans altering the environment.