• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    So starvation to control the population instead of hunting, got ya.

    A.K.A. The way nature works… for hundreds of millions of years? Yes. Exactly that.

    If the carrying capacity of an ecosystem can’t support more predators, you don’t get more predators. The balance that nature has perfected always seems to be disrupted by humans looking to “control the population”.

    What if the predators prey is plants? More predators => less plants => less predators => more plants?

    Again, a balance that simply works without us interfering. When animals (and plants) are left to their own devices, they thrive. The only time this doesn’t happen is when humans get in the way.

    • xenspidey@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Right, deer in the populated areas of north America have no preditors any more. So that population needs to be controlled. In the city and county i live in there are bow hunting programs in the parks since there aren’t many places you could hunt otherwise. If not disease and cars are what would control it. Thats led then ideal. Plus if you don’t want the meat there are programs to donate it to shelters.

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      3 months ago

      when humans get in the way

      And that’s rather the problem with predator populations, isn’t it? You understand all of this, yet still think hunters are using false justifications?