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How did wolves affect all of this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_cascade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species
Trophic Cascade would be a cool band namr
without the wolves, there is nothing stopping the deer population/elks from exploding, and when theres a ton of deer or elk theres an increase the trees, bushes being stripped for food since deers like to eat them. Also the drastic increase in parasites that would affect other animals the deers, have like ticks and tickborne diseases.
trees and bushes die from all thier leaves getting stripped constantly, unless its a super poisonous tree(which is more common in the tropics), and birds dont have nests, and insects wont able to pollinate certain plants,,,etc.
It's the second box
How is it the wolves' faults that elk are assholes?
It’s not, the lack of wolves caused the elk to become a problem. Returning the wolves is (according to the infographic) fixing the elk problems.
So it’s more like the wolves are policing the elk, it’s the wolves “fault” that the elk are not a problem.
The wolves were supposed to be the bouncers at the hip new club "Yellow Stone" and they were shirking their duties and started working at a different club called "The Underworld." Because they weren't there to stop those horny bastards, they fucked all those trees. It's called wood for a reason, amirite? /s
My understanding is that this has been wildly oversimplified and puts much more emphasis on the Wolf conservation efforts. To be fair, there is also a lot of places in and around Yellowstone that still teach this same trophic cascade idea.
https://wolf.org/wolf-info/wolf-magazine/do-wolves-really-change-rivers-part-two/