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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.

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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.

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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

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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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It’s morally better they die fighting us for food, while we right each other for food. Trust me.

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