• thisbenzingring
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    1 year ago

    So true, leave the wolves be!!

    healthy wolf packs keep the other wildlife in check and create a balance that is best for all the wild creatures

    add in a beaver and you can create a utopia for wild life

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      1 year 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, young, and/or less-capable members (ie. fast, agile, alert, etc) will eat the food that otherwise healthy and viable ones need to support the herd’s collective success and thus decreasing (starvation, infection, etc.) the number of healthy individuals among them available to maintain the herd for the future… 🙇🏼‍♂️

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        1 year ago

        human hunters rarely take the weak and sick, causing the overall health of the prey animals to be diminished.

        wolves usually take the weak and aged to leave healthy and young herds