Dwarf Animals

carpocrates

ok, ok, I have a question. Once you're finished laughing at my ignorance I'd appreciate being enlightened.
Why is it that you don't find dwarf (or midget) animals? Or do you? Is it simply possible that I've never seen any. That they get killed in the wild?

Also for that matter, blind, deaf, handicapped, crippled animals? In zoos, or in the wild? Do they get killed by the others or die off themselves? I've never ever seen any!

deedee lepoopoo

I used to think about that also, but I think natural selection happens. The mother animal neglects the weaker of the offspring making it more difficult for them to survive.

Sigma Force

In the wild weak, ill or even deformed babies will usually be killed by the parents or die of natural causes caused by complications of their condition. natures was of ensuring the strongest survive.

You do get species of dwarf animals but I guess not dwarf in the human sense but small versions, more compact. Eg dwarf hamsters.
You also get smaller versions of animals eg lesser flamingo compared to the greater flamingo.

Some animals injured in the wild ef if a bone breaks can survive, it depends on the injury if the injury stops them from eating and hunting for food and defending themselves then they dont have much chance of survivial.

In zoos animals are injured but a decent zoo will provide vet care and see that the animal recovers, sometimes they will take an ill or injured animal off exhibit while the animal recovers.
Certain illnesses or injuries to animals especially larger ones cannot always be cured and sometimes zoos would deceide to put the animal to sleep..it all depends on the individual zoo or park etc.

Monkey world in Dorset UK is a good example of a center that does take on injured animals, they are more of a rescue center than a zoo but they are open to the public. They deal in primates, some of them have missing limbs and other ailments from being mis treated in the past but they all get the vet care and attention they require. A big effort is made to place the animals esp. will special needs into groups where they will get on ok.

Animals are also good at hiding injurys and illnesses, sometimes an animal you are looking at could have something wrong with them but they might be hiding it too well for you to see.

Nasty_Girl

carpocrates wrote:

ok, ok, I have a question. Once you're finished laughing at my ignorance I'd appreciate being enlightened.
Why is it that you don't find dwarf (or midget) animals? Or do you? Is it simply possible that I've never seen any. That they get killed in the wild?

Also for that matter, blind, deaf, handicapped, crippled animals? In zoos, or in the wild? Do they get killed by the others or die off themselves? I've never ever seen any!

What is with your obsession with dwarves today dude!?

CookieCat

Even domestic animals would use selection of the fittest, and the injured or genetically impaired off spring usually don't survive.
Saying that my friend has a kitten now a cat that was born last year without any eyes, he was handed into a vets to be PTS, he contacted her and the cat is a very happy well adjusted if not a bit of a monster cat.

Sigma Force

There are also animals in the wild with no or bad eye sight or whatever, eg animals that live under ground most of the time don't need their sight as much as animals above ground. If you catch my drift.

tovalee

i had a cat that had 3 kittens. one was pure white with blue eyes and the mother did sort of neglect it.she was really small and weak. we realised as she got older she was completely deaf. ironically, she outlived her 2 perfectly normal litter mates though.

Sigma Force

White cats and kittens are so cute!

I took on two and one was deaf, she got around just fine. My elderly cat is now 16 and in the past 2 years or so has become almost if not totally deaf.
I find that if you want to catch their attention just get a torch and shine it..not right in their eyes dont wana blind them too lol but just so they can see it and then reward them with a treat. It works well when you want them to come to you.

Sarky

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ionapaul

When I was a young lad, there was one dog in our estate in Salthill, Galway that I would swear was somewhat retarded. His head was malformed, he acted extremely strangely, and would often run into walls, trees while running about.