9/25/2023 0 Comments Woolly rhinoceros![]() When humans arrived in the 13th Century, the moa were hunted to extinction within 200 years. This happened to the Haast’s eagle in New Zealand, which had evolved to prey exclusively on the flightless moa bird. This allows the prey population to recover and equilibrium is restored.īut when a predator specialises to hunt a single prey species, it can get trapped in an evolutionary dead end. If the balance starts to shift in favour of the predator, the amount of available food dwindles and the predators aren’t able to raise as many young. Normally, evolution is a very slow process and predators are engaged in an ongoing arms race with their prey, who are also evolving new ways to escape. It’s quite hard for a predator to drive itself extinct simply by being such a good hunter that it eats all of the available prey. Reader Q&A: Has an animal ever evolved itself into extinction?
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