The food chain
Table of contents
○The food chain
○Food chain and Amphibians
○Food chain and Amphibians(Alien species)
○Food chain and Amphibians(Frog chytrid disease)
The food chain
![Mr Cat](image/n-g.jpg)
Do you know the food chain?
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
I'm not sure. I know that it's the relationship of predation.
![Mr Cat](image/n-g.jpg)
Sure.
Human and animal are must eat the food.
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
Yes.
![Mr Cat](image/n-n.jpg)
However,animals Not only it.
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
Wow.
![Mr Cat](image/n-n.jpg)
So, chickens eat grain. Human beings are eating this chicken.
![Tamaki](image/t-w.jpg)
Oh!
Ok.
![Mr Cat](image/n-n.jpg)
That's the "food chain".
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
What's mechanism of the food chain
![Mr Cat](image/n-n.jpg)
Look at the this picture.
![](image/syokumoturennsae.png)
This picture called ecological pyramid.
Do not need give food to plant. Let's look.
It has produced organic matter by photosynthesis. So it has been referred to as the manufacturer of the natural world.
Animal is called the consumer of the natural world in reverse.
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
Animals and plants do called what?
![Mr Cat](image/n-n.jpg)
Plants are referred to as growers.
There are things that play a different role.
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
What?
![Mr Cat](image/n-n.jpg)
Thing called decomposers
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
What's the decomposers?
![Mr Cat](image/n-n.jpg)
Bacteria and Earthworm in the soil.It break down the waste and carcasses.
Plants are sucked up as a nutrient it is.
Are in the very bottom of the ecological pyramid.
Producer and consumer is a lot .Higher-order consumers, it little.
![Tamaki](image/t-b.jpg)
You're right。
But do they have that there is no food?
![Mr Cat](image/n-n.jpg)
Food does not disappear.Because there are decomposers.
Foundation of stable food in that there are decomposers.And so is balanced.
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
It is an important role!
Balance of pyramid broken Would like to return?
![Mr Cat](image/n-a.jpg)
There is no such a thing!
But it needs long period to put back.
However, it may not be restored.
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
We must keep the environment.
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Food chain and amphibians
![Mr Frog](image/k-a.jpg)
Amphibian have a serious problem.
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
What?
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Amphibian is on the verge of extinction.Are many types of.
![Tamaki](image/t-b.jpg)
!?!?
Really!?
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Ah.
Takes to infectious diseases, as frog chytrid disease. Then will not be breathing skin. And it will die.
There is other.For example, amphibians have a specific mucosa.It will die environment is changed.
There is other.Alien species is increasing.So the original species has declined.
![Tamaki](image/t-a.jpg)
Oh, no!!
![Mr Frog](image/k-a.jpg)
Amphibians may be gone 100 years later.
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
What impact ? That's too bad.
![Mr Frog](image/k-g.jpg)
Do you know the relationship of the food chain?
![Tamaki](image/t-w.jpg)
Yes.
I heard from Mr Cat.
Ecological pyramid also.
![Mr Frog](image/k-w.jpg)
Good to hear.
Amphibians, are in the layer below in the pyramid.
When amphibians disappear .....
![Tamaki](image/t-b.jpg)
Layer below will all disappear. Of the triangle.
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Sure.
Animals eat amphibians.What animal will be?
![Tamaki](image/t-a.jpg)
Vanish!!
…However, I think Amphibians does not change even disappear.
![Mr Frog](image/k-b.jpg)
That is not !!
It 's a matter of life and death in the animal.Because animals eat amphibians.
Food of animal disappear? Then, Animals will die.
Then?
![Tamaki](image/t-a.jpg)
Most animals will die ....
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Let's cherish all animals.
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★Exotic species ...
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
Increase of alien species cause amphibian extinction?
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Yeah.
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
Let's get along well.
![Mr Frog](image/k-a.jpg)
They can not them.
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
Why?
![mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Let's think in Japan.
Japan huh island nation.
They are making the ecological balance of its own among the island nation.
And put a non-native species that came from other continents ...What happens?
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
…Coexistence?
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
In fact, they prey on animals that were in the land that originally, killed.
![Tamaki](image/t-b.jpg)
Oh, no!
Let's defiance to the alien species!
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
They can not do it.
Endemic species is only a little enemy. Alien species there are full of enemy .Which is strong? Alien species and endemic species.
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
Alien species.
Overwhelming.
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
The weak will become prey.
Would have been killed.
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
It is survival of the fittest.
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
In fact, it is true in all animals.
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
That's scary..
Are you sure you want a little?
![Mr Frog](image/k-g.jpg)
What's the matter?
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
Alien species do have come to the land that is different how?
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Humans are deeply involved.
![Tamaki](image/t-a.jpg)
Me!?
![Mr Frog](image/k-g.jpg)
You not. It would not do such a thing.
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
What?
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
That throw away the animal.
![Tamaki](image/t-o.jpg)
I do not do that!
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
It was good if you like everyone
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
?
![Mr Frog](image/k-o.jpg)
Some people to throw away the alien species out well.
![Tamaki](image/t-o.jpg)
Irresponsible!
![Mr Frog](image/k-o.jpg)
More from there, the ecosystem is going to collapse.
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
Do not throw away irresponsibly animals.
It's a problem very much.
I brought up with responsibility up to the absolute end!
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★Frog chytrid disease
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
I will introduce how to remedy of the frog chytrid disease. And the frog chytrid disease's fear.
Tamaki Please keep listening to my words well.
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
…Yeah.
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Frog chytrid disease is due to molds. It is a molds that amphibians only take.
![Tamaki](image/t-a.jpg)
…Oh.
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
If we are infected, then the skin expansion to 40 times.
We will not be able to skin respiration then.
And, there is a 90% fatality rate. So we will die.
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
What should I do if you have infection ?
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Please go to consult a vet and do not throw away the water in the aquarium.
You must disinfection or incineration to breeding container.
And,If I die,you must incinerated me.
If you do not it,leads to outdoor infection.
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
...Ok.
I will do it.
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
But,I have happy news!
![Tamaki](image/t-g.jpg)
?
![Mr Frog](image/k-w.jpg)
I heard by TV.Many of the amphibians of Japan have high resistance to the disease .
![Tamaki](image/t-b.jpg)
Really!?
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Giant salamanders so has resistance to the disease .
![Tamaki](image/t-w.jpg)
Wow!
![Mr Frog](image/k-n.jpg)
Yeah.
![Tamaki](image/t-n.jpg)
Do you have it?
I dicided to ciean your aquarium every day.
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