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RE: Having predators in your region will lead to several different benefits for us humans! Keeping them around might actually do us a lot of goods

in #science7 years ago

It is all about the balance.
Every thing serves his purpose in the ecosystem, of course predictors included.
From another point of view, we humans are the worst predictors that ever lived on this planet.
So labeling some specie as predatory should not grant permission to hate and hunt ruthlessly.
e.g If a wild cat is hunting your domestic animals, she is not doing this for pleasure instead she may be doing so to feed her kids....So why we should hunt/hate her.
I think on the topic of predictors emotions cloud the better human logical judgement.

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Yep, you are absolutely right!

e.g If a wild cat is hunting your domestic animals, she is not doing this for pleasure instead she may be doing so to feed her kids....So why we should hunt/hate her.

I love it when nature documentaries show this. At first you see a big lion or another predator kill a poor little gazelle, and everyone gets upset at the lion. In the next scene you see her feeding it to the cure little cubs, and suddenly everyone is okay with it after all.