My understanding is that there’s a relationship between the food source and the number of animals that consume it, so as the food supply increases, the number of animals that consume that food also increases.
I’ve heard for years (more like decades), that “it’s a bad year for ticks” and “the number of ticks are on the rise.” Where are the opossums and other predators that eat ticks? Shouldn’t there be a ton of them by now, or are there actually just a normal amount of ticks, and my information sources are wrong (word of mouth, and tv news).
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If ticks were the ONLY food source yes. But opossums are really good generalists.
If you destroy enough bamboo trees you can decimate the panda population because they almost exclusively eat bamboo. And it’s the same with Koalas and eucalyptus trees
But opossums are generalists that aren’t tied to an exclusive food source.
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