I live in a small city in the US, where it’s grass everywhere. There’s lots of rabbits, but why aren’t there more? They eat grass, and there’s clearly more grass than they can eat at their current population size. There’s no significant predators to speak of, I don’t think. They breed legendarily quickly, there’s even an expression about it. So if food isn’t a constraint, predators aren’t a constraint, what is the constraint? I would think they should just increase population until we don’t have to cut our grass anymore.
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One reason is it goes i cycles, more rabbits leads to more predators witch leads to less rabbits which leads to less predators which leads to more rabbits…
But I get your point my backyard backs on to greenspace. It could support so many rabbits, and predators seem limited but to exist
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