Rise Of The Mesopredator (ft. ScienceWithTom)
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Hi, this is Emily in a special musical edition of MinuteEarth featuring Science with Tom. The food webs of the world all used to have so-called apex predators β like lions, tigers, and bears β at the very top. But humans have posed a major threat to apex predators by breaking up their habitats and hunting many of them to near extinction. It was good to be king We were trophic elite Prey ate the plants And we ate their meat Then this little ape called βManβ Wanted to compete And as the humans spread And invaded globally They broke up our habitats And killed us all - rather fast They were shooting us for sport Or for eating sheep Lions, lynx, and sea eagles Alphas worldwide, met precipitous decline Leopards, wolves, and hammer-heads, Were persecuted Leaving disarray behind...
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Hi, this is Emily in a special musical edition of MinuteEarth featuring Science with Tom. The food webs of the world all used to have so-called apex predators β like lions, tigers, and bears β at the very top. But humans have posed a major threat to apex predators by breaking up their habitats and hunting many of them to near extinction. It was good to be king We were trophic elite Prey ate the plants And we ate their meat Then this little ape called βManβ Wanted to compete And as the humans spread And invaded globally They broke up our habitats And killed us all - rather fast They were shooting us for sport Or for eating sheep Lions, lynx, and sea eagles Alphas worldwide, met precipitous decline Leopards, wolves, and hammer-heads, Were persecuted Leaving disarray behind...
