Wildebeest Symbiosis With Serengeti Ecosystem
by Owen Borville
December 13, 2021
Science
The Wildebeest has a symbiosis with its environment in the southeast Africa plains and savannah and have a very important role in its environmental ecosystem by helping keep it balanced.
Their waste products exit their body and fertilize the ground soil and plant life.
As these plant eaters walk on the grass, they graze and migrate in large herds, and new growth is spurred.
They are an important food source for lions and hyenas, therefore existing as prey for predators.
A recent surge in wildebeest population in Africa has been shown to benefit the ecosystem environment by helping keep it balanced.
The wildebeest has been identified as a keystone species, such that other living things largely depend on it and that the absense of this keystone species would have a dramatic effect on the ecosystem and environment in which it lives.
This symbiosis of the wildebeest with its environment and ecosystem is just one more example of how the biosphere on Earth is one large ecosystem symbiosis system and every part is needed together: an element of Design in Nature.
by Owen Borville
December 13, 2021
Science
The Wildebeest has a symbiosis with its environment in the southeast Africa plains and savannah and have a very important role in its environmental ecosystem by helping keep it balanced.
Their waste products exit their body and fertilize the ground soil and plant life.
As these plant eaters walk on the grass, they graze and migrate in large herds, and new growth is spurred.
They are an important food source for lions and hyenas, therefore existing as prey for predators.
A recent surge in wildebeest population in Africa has been shown to benefit the ecosystem environment by helping keep it balanced.
The wildebeest has been identified as a keystone species, such that other living things largely depend on it and that the absense of this keystone species would have a dramatic effect on the ecosystem and environment in which it lives.
This symbiosis of the wildebeest with its environment and ecosystem is just one more example of how the biosphere on Earth is one large ecosystem symbiosis system and every part is needed together: an element of Design in Nature.