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A Wildlife Crossing for Mountain Lions?
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You will now decide if building a wildlife crossing would benefit the SMM mountain lion population.
Post Requirements
This assignment requires two posts, each completed individually.
- For the first post, write a short 3-4 sentence answer to the following question:
Should the Mountain Lion Task Force support the building of the wildlife crossing as a solution to increase the genetic viability of the SMM mountain lion population? Provide justification for your answer using t data from a minimum of 2 tables that your group analyzed from Let’s Analyze the Data.
- For the second post, respond to a classmate’s post:
If you agree with your classmate, what data from Let’s Analyze the Data do you find the most compelling? Explain.
If you disagree with your classmate, explain your reasoning using data from Let’s Analyze the Data.
Question: Should the Mountain Lion Task Force support the building of the wildlife crossing as a solution to increase the genetic viability of the SMM mountain lion population?
The Mountain Lion Task Force should support the building of the wildlife crossing as a solution to increase the genetic viability of the SMM mountain lion population. According to the table 3, the totally observed frequency of mountain lions passages through the wildlife crossings In Banff National park from 1997-2000 is over 70, so that means these mountain lions did really use and need these crossings. These crossings can helps the lions have ways to get close to other lions and breed more breed of lions to increase the population of SMM. In addition, according to the table 4, it shows that the migration event can increase the genetic diversity of SMM. The new migration of P12 cross the 101 freeway and change the previous number alleles of SMM from 1.9 to 2.3, and the polymorphic is also from 76% to 83%. This is a big change and will increase the total number of SMM, so the the building of wildlife crossing can make this happen and give them the way to immigrate to another environment to increase the genetic diversity.
