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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Used to trap bobcats and sell the fur. It seems that when the rabbit population was higher then we would have a good trapping season. I assume when rabbit population gets high the predator population increases. Even in a city there are animals that will hunt for rabbits.
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