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doomdoomofdoom · 17 days ago

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Graph I was shown in 8th grade biology. It's a really simple concept to understand, and anyone who thinks getting rid of local predator animals will be beneficial to wildlife either hasn't thought about it whatsoever or is lying to you.

Prey > Predators: Predators have ample food supply and their population grows until it reaches a tipping point.

Prey < Predators: The diminished prey population can no longer sustain the large predator population. With not enough food to go around, the predator population shrinks, allowing the prey population to recover.

And then it starts all over again. Welcome to the ecosystem.

So one of my tweets kinda blew up. :v

#unfortunately english wikipedia redirects you to the Lotka-Volterra equations directly which is what the model is called #but then it mostly explains math and less biology #also obviously theres a lot more complexity and interconnectedness in the real world but this is the base theory #nature is all about balancing and maintaining itself. thats how we got this far. everything connects and influences each other element #so one “small” change can have massive repercussions.#i really thought this was common knowledge. like they have disney movies about this.#this is literally what happens in the lion king #ramble

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