[SpamCop-Social] Re: I can't believe they're actually doing this!

[Sylvesterthekat]

"indigo" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> Sylvesterthekat wrote:
> > Quite so. After all, the animals don't go about destroying their
> > environment; they're not that foolish.
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> Not true. Areas overpopulated with deer suffer from complete
> deforestation -- the deer eat anything and everything available to them,
> thus destroying their own habitat.

Most likely because they have no choice - they can't move out of the area
they're occupying (because of Man). Simply eating something is not
destructive behaviour per se, whereas dumping toxic chemicals on it is.
Eventually the deer would die out in a population crash, thus restoring the
balance.