2020 is a year of deep disasters, which we humans have never thought of, many natural disasters come uninvited, and locust plagues, viruses, wildfires, and typhoons, many people's lives have been seriously affected, the quality of life has declined, and some people have experienced the pain of losing relatives and friends.
But now there is bad news about the climate of 2020, which is the hottest year since the climate record, which proves that the claim of global warming is true, climatologists are not joking with us, the earth is indeed in the process of accelerating warming, and the future climate may destroy a large number of human beings.
In 2020, wild animals are actually more miserable than humans, wildfires in Australia and the United States have brought nightmares to hundreds of millions of wild animals, and those animals that escaped the disaster have not been blessed, and the jungle food after the fire has become scarce coupled with the arrival of winter, many animals are either frozen to death or starved to death.
Even in 2021, their life is not good, recently, a desperate mountain lion appeared in a small town in southern California, there are photos showing that this mountain lion looks a little "sick", lying on the ground, no strength to stand up, probably because of too hungry reasons, the vertebrae are high, the abdomen is empty, thinner than a dog.
And 8 miles north of Newell Creek, California, the trap camera in the jungle found another mountain lion, taking a weak step, and then sitting powerlessly in the open space in front of the trap camera in a daze, although the camera did not show a very good effect, but we can still see that the mountain lion is skinny and has an empty abdomen.
One animal protector wrote in the comments on the picture that my concern is that the lion's body has been malnourished and may not have more strength to hunt prey, and once it loses the ability to hunt, it means that it has only one final fate, quietly waiting to die, which can be said to be the sadness of the king of the forest.
Now, experts are not sure why they have become so thin, but some experts have privately speculated that one possibility is that the wildfires that raged in California in 2020, many wild animals were burned to death, directly causing the mountain lions to lose their prey, and another possibility is that the mountain lions accidentally ate flame retardants and rodenticides and were poisoned.
Mountain lions are solitary animals native to California, USA, and are already protected by law, but sometimes in groups, and in general, mountain lions are usually far away from human settlements, but there are always a few exceptions where they follow humans and even enter people's homes.
Although both mountain lions are now seen emaciated and appear to have lost their ability to hunt, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, mountain lions have not been threatened or endangered since the lion was protected, and the number has grown in recent years due to its status as a "specially protected species," estimating 4,000 to 6,000 in the state.
If that's the case, the two emaciated lions seen now are just one example and don't represent the current state of the population as a whole, as five healthy mountain lions appeared in a home surveillance video outside a house east of Sacramento, California, in January 2020.
Although the desperate mountain lion is only a case, it has sounded a wake-up call for us, the natural environment is getting worse and worse, the impact of the greenhouse effect is getting bigger and bigger, and a variety of natural disasters are also on the verge of erupting, in the future, bushfires may erupt more and more frequently, typhoons may become more and more violent, and locust plagues may become more and more frequent.
In the past half century, dozens of known species have disappeared from the earth forever, but some scientists predict that species extinction has just begun, and we may lose more species next. If this continues for a long time, the earth may indeed become a barren and barren planet. Interesting scientific exploration content, please pay attention to the only WeChat public account: Interesting Exploration