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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> There’s no significant predators to speak of, I don’t think
> They breed legendarily quickly, there’s even an expression about it.
They breed quickly because they do have a lot of predators. Only about 15% of rabbits reach adulthood.
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