The bigger mammals, at the end of the food chain, like the big cats--the clouded leopard or the Chinese tiger cat--are the first wave to be hit. Lin Chun-yi, a professor of biology at Tunghai University, has compiled a chart of the altitudes of various mammals in Taiwan over the last forty years. He discovered that the areas in which they stay have increased about 1000 meters.
歐、美、日本許多人家則流行在庭院或陽台設置鳥食台；仿蝙蝠巢的食台；英國倫敦有一條人工穿鑿、橫跨公路的「青蛙地道」，以免它們穿越馬路時，不幸被車輛輾過。