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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 109 points 1 week ago (8 children)

No Simba, if they were all allowed to die naturally, there would be too many of them to share the grass. They would die fighting themselves for food, a miserable existence. Only a truley dumb species would ignore the natural order and allow their own to die of hunger.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There is that aspect though. Unless the Antelope are good at looking out for each other and taking turns, they will mindlessly degreen the entire area.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

read a long time ago about how the deer population got out of control in this one forest, and within a few years the place was practically a desert. everything just fuckin died

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 week ago

That's a common problem in places where humans eliminated the existing predators. Herbivores evolved to reproduce in large numbers to account for the predators and this is a disaster if suddenly there are none.

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