Can nonhuman animals drive other animals to extinction?

Birds block out light from the sun while looking up. The passenger pigeons used to fly in flocks of hundreds of millions of birds. We started shooting them.

According to Audubon magazine, passenger pigeons were extinct by 1914 after humans began hunting them. Humans can wipe out even the most common species in a matter of minutes. Can nonhuman animals drive other animals to extinction?
Humans are usually involved. Some animals are capable of decimation if humans put them in the wrong place and they become invaders. There are pythons from Asia that are goingbbling up anything that moves in the Florida Everglades. According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, the python population started out as pets.

Ecological naveté is when a species can't recognize or respond to a new species in their environment. It's not their fault that animals don't evolve to flee or defend themselves against aliens.

"The primary way that alien species wipe out natives is through consumption, so, predator introduced to areas where there have been no predator before or the types of predator that were there were different," said Tim Blackburn, a professor of invasion biology at University College London in the U.K. That gives them an advantage that allows them to eat through naive faunas.
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The domestic cat is a good example. He said that they have contributed to the extinction of dozens of species of bird. According to the American Bird Conservancy, cats are the leading cause of bird mortality. American birds are more at risk from cats than from guns.

Humans move giant snakes around the planet. Anything they do after that is on us. When animals migrate to a new area, what about? Animals tend to naturally move to nearby areas where the kinds of species are similar, so there are usually no unfair matches.
The movement of land can cause an interspecies shake-up. The Great American Biotic interchange occurred about 10 million to 10,000 years ago, when plates pushed North America and South America together, and species from each continent met via a central American land bridge. South America was introduced to many new animals, including bears and big cats, while North America received species like ground sloths and glyptodonts in return.
South America gained more new residents because of the higher diversity of animals that moved from North America. A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggested that the extinction rate of South American mammals was higher than the rest of the world. More species in South America went extinct during the exchange and less were able to colonize North America.

The University of Fribourg's Juan Carrillo is the lead author of the 2020 paper. Predation by North American carnivores is one hypothesis.
The ground sloths and the glyptodonts were large enough to escape the predatory animals. They were found in the fossil record in many parts of North America, and that may be one of the reasons they were able to migrate to the north.

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A cat is watching a bird. The image is courtesy of Zmijak.

The impact of modern invaders on extinctions is clear, but the interchange paints a more complicated picture. It took over millions of years and had different phases, but it was not just one instant. The South American extinctions took place during a time when Earth was cooling and likely had an impact.

Is it still fair to assume that some prey species in South America went extinct because of a North American predator? It is possible, but it's difficult to disentangle that cause from climate change and other factors.

Prey don't rise up to dominate their prey because animal traits are forged in an evolutionary battleground. If a predator were to eat its prey to extinction, it would also become extinct. extinctions usually involve multiple factors and if a predator has multiple prey, it could survive wiping out one species.
There are no examples of a species consuming another to extinction. He said that the natural world is incredibly complicated and takes an enormous amount of work to tease out the processes that are generally going on.
Humans are driving species to extinction through activities such as overhunting. "The fact that those effects are so dramatic is almost strong evidence that these processes are real and very different to what's gone on before," she said.
It was originally published on Live Science.