Risks for Reptiles; What and Why?

Two types of animals are found in the biosphere. One is cold-blooded animals and the other is hot blooded animals. Examples of cold-blooded animals are: Reptiles and warm blood are animals - birds, mammals, etc. The advantage of hot blooded animals is that they can adapt themselves to any environment. On the other hand, cold-blooded animals can not adapt themselves to the environment. In winter it is found that reptiles go to hibernation or winter. Because the winter is not favorable for their survival and normal activities. Various papers and books are called birds and mammals, called Endotherms and reptiles and amphibians are called Ectotherms.

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The question of how the environment can be affected by the climate change and how much climate can be adapted to it is a question. However, the study of scientists found that living in modification of the climate change will continue because warm-blooded animals As the world has changed over millions of years, birds and mammals have more adaptability than reptiles and amphibians. With the change of temperature, birds and mammals have found a suitable environment for them, and the successive evolution of these two classes has happened.

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This year, a paper on Nature Ecology and Evolution comes out, titled 'The Impact of Endothermy on the Climatic Niche Evolution and the Distribution of Vertebrate Diversity'. In this study paper several data of various vertebrate animals was collected and analyzed. The purpose of the analysis is to see how different classes of animals can adapt themselves to the changes in the environment. This analysis was collected by collecting about 11,000 vertebrates and now about 2,70 billion years of pigment that has been found in animal fossils. It shows that warm blooded animals survive in various weather conditions. The animals of this class are very wide. On the other hand, cold-blooded animals roamed and adapted to different environments. They are not successful in this case. This study showed that if the climate change becomes even more intense, then the extinction rate of reptilian species will increase a lot.

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For many reasons, hot blooded animals are successful in survival in nature. Birds and mammals have a wonderful ability to control their body temperature. Whatever the external environment, they can survive in their own way. There is no freedom for cold-blooded animals. To adapt these animals to the outside environment, they have to change their self-attributes. In winter these animals have to reduce their workload, because the outdoor cooler environment prevents them from finding food, or finding a place to live or finding a partner. Like warm-blooded animals, they can not adapt to this environment, because they can not survive in the biological rules "Survival for the fittest".

Warm blooded animals can organize their babies in a hot place, which is important for them to grow. But there is no such freedom in reptiles. They must rely on a specific weather and environment and wait for that time. Today, when there was a global cold age of about 34 million years ago, circulation around birds and mammals has been spreading throughout the period from the recurrence of reptiles and their work. To say, cold blooded animals have helped to dominate the bloody animals. But in the age of this global warming, they are increasingly becoming increasingly vulnerable to not being able to adapt to the environment. Because of this climate change, due to the change in ecology and the change in climate change, which is becoming irregular every day.

A researcher at the University of California at Santacruz, A Science of Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches published a paper. There he worked with the change of current climate and the extent of the extinction of Lizard's extinction in the future. It has been shown that by 2080, only twenty percent of the world's lizards will be extinct for climate change. In some places its rate may exceed forty percent. By the end of 1975, four percent of the lizards had disappeared.

One thing can come to mind, climate change is a good news for snakes and lizards, because they can not live their normal life in winter, so the warm environment will be good for them. As a result, they can increase their breeding. But there is a problem here too. There is a limit to the ability of this type of reptile to tolerate temperature. If the temperature increases too much and the level of variation in nature and the rate becomes irregular, then it will become uncomfortable for these animals. The main reasons for this have already been mentioned that reptiles like other animals can not expand their living space.

References
[1] Rolland, J., Silvestro, D., Schluter, D., Guisan, A., Broennimann, O. and Salamin, N. (2018). The Impact of Endothermy on the Climatic Niche Evolution and the Distribution of Vertebrate Diversity, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, pages: 459-464

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