• Question: If all animals but humans were going to die, and you alone had the power to save one species of animal what would you save and why?

    Asked by enderking134 to Anna, Chris, Jane, Iain, Nick on 12 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Anna Middleton

      Anna Middleton answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      Hi @enderking134
      Gosh, that’s really hard! I’ve re-written my answer several times here……I think I’d save cows so that we had a source of meat and milk and leather. Seems harsh but that’s the only reason we have cows now – to eat them! It’s not as if we keep them as pets and I acknowledge this is a pretty hard deal for the cows. Actually now I’m writing this, that’s really not great for the cows even now, I hadn’t really thought about it before…

    • Photo: Nick Goldman

      Nick Goldman answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      Humans + 1 other? Hmm. How about bees, so that the plants would still get pollinated and so there would be something for us to eat?

    • Photo: Jane Charlesworth

      Jane Charlesworth answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      I agree with Nick–let’s save the bees! Bees pollinate so many plants so we could grow food (and we can survive on a diet of just plants anyway).

    • Photo: Chris Cole

      Chris Cole answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      I’m going to be pretty negative – there’s no point in saving just one. If there are only two species of animal left on the planet I doubt they’d last very long as we’re all interconnected and dependent on each other. Plants would die out with no animals to help fertilise or pollinate them. So would we then as there’d be no food.

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