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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As other point out, there are rabbits everywhere, just not necessarily alive and intact. And when they are, not necessarily visible to you.
As a counterpoint you get Australia, which didn’t have natural rabbit predators, and there the situation turned out precisely as you imagine it should have been where you live. The became effectively a biblical plague. Same with mice, which turn out in tidal waves.
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