A news item earlier this year cited the upcoming extinction of the banana, giving the slippery fruit a life expectancy of but 10 more years.
A few days later, another news item announced similar doom for the shark, especially in the waters of the northeast Atlantic. At this point, there is no known food-chain tie with the bananas.
Yet, who knows? What goes around comes around, and catastrophe is often catching. As chaos theory states, when a butterfly burps in China, we may all feel the effects.