Why Popular Animals Are More At Risk

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    • Publish Date: Apr 15 2018 2:36PM
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    • Updated Date: Apr 15 2018 2:36PM
Why Popular Animals Are More At Risk

Iconic animals such as elephants, tigers, lions and giant pandas are everywhere in movies, books and toystores. But their wide pop culture presence skews public perception of how endangered these animals are, researchers said.

Online surveys, zoo websites, animated films and school questionnaires were scoured by US and French researchers for the study, published in journal ‘PLOS Biology’. Using these sources, scientists made a list of the top 10 most charismatic animals: tigers, lions, elephants, giraffes, leopards, pandas, cheetahs, polar bears, gray wolves and gorillas.

Researchers also found that almost 49% of all the non-teddy bear stuffed animals sold in the US on Amazon were one of these 10 charismatic animals.

In France, 8,00,000 ‘Sophie the giraffe’ baby toys were sold in 2010, more than eight times the numbers of giraffes living in Africa.

Lead author Franck Courchamp of the University of Paris said these animals are so common in pop culture and marketing materials that they create a ‘virtual population’ in people’s minds, one that is doing far better in perception than reality.

“Unknowingly, the companies that use giraffes, cheetahs or polar bears for marketing purposes may be actively contributing to the false perception that these animals are not at risk of extinction, and therefore not in need of conservation,” Courchamp said.

Co-author William Ripple, a professor of forest ecology at Oregon State University in the US, said, “If we don’t act in a concerted effort to save these species, that may soon be the only way anyone will see them.”

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As they are popular everyone want to watch it out how is it and try to catch it. some are good for food so they try to catch and kill for food. some even try to use these animal as pet so that everyone could see and they can become popular. some can escape from these threat but whereas not everyone. some are affected even by the nature. the trees and forest have being reduced for the human living purpose.

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