• 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
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      613 hours ago

      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
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        613 hours ago

        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

    • ✺roguetrick✺
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      414 hours ago

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