Animal displacement pressures

Animals are often being driven from areas that humans find habitable or in some cases, those that humans make habitable. Still the mountains around LA, in spite of tremendous human population pressures, remain relatively devoid of human habitation. But all other land nearby that is even remotely flat is occupied by humans and the occasional possum. Most other complex life forms have been forced into the surrounding mountains, become extinct, or been moved out by ASPCA.

The animals who have survived are now in a new environment. Few of them are naturally hill-climbers, and none of them naturally manage the pollution well. This type of animal displacement can be found in a huge number of urban centers affecting a large number of large mammals and reptiles. Fish have been depopulated to extinction and forced into new climates that are harsher or less accessible to humans. Many prominent scientists and environmentalists are concerned about the large open areas of the oceans devoid of life and how few mountain-lions survive. Yet these examples open up opportunities for other life and complex life living in new areas simply means that life will need to adapt.

The three-eyed frog from the Simpsons is one possible outcome from this animal displacement, but more likely, the mutations and adaptations will be more mundane and prepare these animals for hillsides (not the fish of course), mountains, and deep forests. When the inevitable flooding comes from polar melting and the more flooding on coasts, these animals may be more adapted to dealing with space and land pressures.

Of course, a bunny rabbit that can climb montains like a goat seems odd, but if that works for the bunnies....