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Asked by jjnsarson to Anna, Chris, Jane, Iain, Nick on 11 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by emilie12.
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Chris Cole answered on 11 Mar 2014:
Of course!
In the wild, if it’s a serious disease most animals will die. That’s why you don’t often see sick animals: they’re either healthy or dead. it’s harsh, but that’s natural selection.
Pets don’t live such harsh lives and will live longer, but often get ‘human’ diseases such cancer, diabetes and stroke.
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Iain Moal answered on 11 Mar 2014:
Yes, animals can get all sorts of diseases. Even dinosaurs had diseases – palaeontologists have even found fossils of dinosaurs with bone cancers, which show that cancer was around millions of years before humans even existed.
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Jane Charlesworth answered on 12 Mar 2014:
Not just other animals, but also plants, fungi and even bacteria can get diseases (here’s a picture of a virus that infects bacteria–pretty awesome looking, huh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage)
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Anna Middleton answered on 12 Mar 2014:
hi @jjnsarson
Yes all animals get diseases too. My cat got cancer and died, it tends to affect cats a lot worse than humans, which will be due to the fact that they have different genes to us.
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