| Re: Wildlife and the Flooding
Ukwildlifeo has it right. Most species of animals (and plants) have some means of dealing with extremes in weather. I am sure some animals will have had a tough time (lost clutches of eggs/youngsters etc) but additional clutches are possible. And on the bright side some species actually need flood disturbance to live. I have spent a fair bit of my professional life studying animals living on gravel and sand bars in rivers. Without the floods these species would not have a habitat. Constant recycling of the sediments by the floods are a necessary element in that habitat.
There's always sunshine after rain...or so Dire Straits would say - couldn't resist it...sorry.
Jon |