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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Rabbits are freakishly fragile. If they don’t eat for 24 hours, they die. If they eat something nasty, they can’t throw it up, so they die. If they literally get too frightened, they have a heart attack… and they die. Seriously, it happened to my friend’s rabbit… he was startled by her dog. Basically the only reason they still exist as a species is because they were mass domesticated about 1200 years ago to raise for meat, lol.
Now don’t get me wrong. I LOVE rabbits. I have had many rabbits and loved many more. But it’s a miracle that they’re still around lol
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