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Mystery #3Tier 2food chains

What goes wrong when all the hunters are taken out of a habitat?

Foxes, wolves and hawks can seem like the villains of the wild, always hunting the gentle creatures. So you might think a habitat would be happier and safer with all its hunters gone. Strangely, the opposite is true. What goes wrong when you take every predator out of a habitat?

Red deer resting in a grassy field in Scotland, with a tall deer fence behind them keeping them out of the young forestry trees
Photo: Ann Cook · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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