Whether it's mountain Goats or trees or people many living things don't transplant well

Recently we asked one of our Gardeners whether we could transplant Roses Yellow Ones and White ones from where they were to another part of the yard. The problem is that they were there in 1999 when we first moved into the house. He said, "No. They wouldn't survive after all these years being in one place."

The same is true of many people or trees or animals. For example, while I was in India and Nepal I had heard of many Tibetans who didn't want to be tortured or harmed by the Chinese in Tibet and wanted to be free to practice their religion and to live their lives. They moved to Nepal or India and especially in India they succombed to more tropical diseases a lot because they lived mostly above 8000 feet in elevation where tropical diseases cannot live.

So, when you are talking about transplanting Goats to another area with a survival rate of 56% this general percentage point isn't just for goats but also for many living things including people likely will survive only at about that rate worldwide. Of course younger goats and younger people might survive where older goats and older people would not. 

So, unless the people or goats actually choose to move to another location there is a likelihood that anything forced to move to another area might have a survival rate of around 50% to 60% within a couple of years. Even Migrants coming up from South America from places like Venezuela might be in this position too because of expecting something that might not be possible when they arrived here.

Adaptability is necessary for all species to move from one locality to another. 

Some of the factors are:
 

Weather

Food

whether whatever is moved likes this new place or not.

Soil might make some things a group of beings is dependent upon taste or act different in relation to their bodies when consumed for food. 

Also, insects are different and bird species often are different in different locations too. So, all these changes and more can spell the difference between life and death for all living things transplanted from one place to another possibly against their wills. 

Another way to look at this is what does the population look like 5 to 10 years down the line. If the population rebounds it just means some members of the population couldn't survive the changes for one reason or another in the short term.

For example, many or most of us could not survive what our forebears went through to get here. I have ancestors who lived in the U.S. since 1725 from Switzerland and I have a great grandfather who was a Captain in the northern Army during the Civil war from Kansas. I'm not sure I would either want to survive some of that stuff or even could. There were not vaccinations or medicines of the kinds we use today. However, it is also true that they might not be able (for one reason or another) to survive in the world in 2024 either. This is also true.