What happens to all the animals if men were to disappear?
In a year, you wouldn’t know where the lawns end and the roads begin, no unless you scraped the cover off the roads. no … it would take longer than that … where i live there have been areas that were, for some time, effectively abandoned … roads and parking lots that haven’t been maintained for 30 years are still mostly intact … broken up a bit and ragged, but still distinct it would probably take at least 100 years for a real break up and even then there’d still be substantial signs of a road having been there … jagged rocks of cement and asphalt i think buildings would last a good long time too … it takes awhile for things like that to totally disappear … longer than a lifetime …
Smithsonian this month has an interesting article on urban coyotes. It’s worth picking up just to read that. I never knew that coyotes were originally found only between the Rockies and the Mississippi. Obviously they’ve spread. Coyotes can breed with dogs or wolves. My own pup is quite likely part coy-dog. She was originally a feral dog along the Mexican border and displays many of the characteristics of a coy-dog. In the Northeast thay have found coyotes that are 68 lbs. Far larger than the 15 lb. average on the Plains. They have also found that Northeastern coyotes almost all carry some wolf genes. (I apologize, this is all from memory) I guess my point is that we have altered natural systems significantly. How they will react if/when we disappear is hard to determine. However, I like to think of hippos in the southern Mississippi River and tigers hunting tasty, tasty wild pigs through the South. Better than that “Only The Cockroaches Survive” scenario. But then, I have a closer tie
