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    5 days ago

    FWIW, that’s how ecosystems work.

    Conservationist hunters (humans) endeavor to manage herd sizes in order to keep illness and age from devastating the health of target groups. For example, if a herd of deer is allowed to grow beyond the size its available food sources can sustain, the older, injured, and/or less-capable (ie. fast, agile, alert, etc) young members will eat the food that otherwise healthy and capable ones need and thus decreasing (starvation, infection, etc.) the number of healthy individuals among them available to maintain the herd for the future… 🙇🏼‍♂️