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The Andean cock of the rock is an important, very unique species in the Andean rainforest ecosystem. However, with climate change could come changes for the species. In a thousand years, it will develop certain adaptations for the shifts in its environment: it will lose the large head which males have to attract female attention, instead preferring to blend in against an influx of predators migrating when their own habitats are destroyed, and, because the species will begin to die out at first, there will be fewer males competing; it will have a longer beak to eat seeds which are deeper in the ground since they may become scarcer; it will have thinner feathers because with the Andes glaciers melting, less moisture will travel inland to the rainforests, and it will be hotter, so thinner feathers will be more comfortable and aerodynamic; and it will become nocturnal to escape predators.