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Mystery #2Tier 2animal populations

Why cannot a single kind of animal simply keep breeding until it covers the whole land?

A single pair of rabbits could, in theory, have babies, who have babies, who have babies, until rabbits covered every field in the land. The maths says it should happen surprisingly quickly. Yet it never does. Why can't one kind of animal simply keep breeding until it takes over everywhere?

An enormous herd of wildebeest streaming across the Serengeti, thousands of animals filling the green grass with dry bare plains beyond
Photo: Daniel Rosengren · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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