Question

A female rabbit can give birth to over 40 baby rabbits a year. Suppose all of her
offspring survived and reproduced, all of their offspring survived and
reproduced, and so on. If that happened, in only eight years the mass of rabbits
would exceed the mass of Earth! So, why aren't we overrun with rabbits? What
keeps the rabbit population in check?

Answer 1

Answer:

• Predeators such as us and others that eat these rabbits keep their population in check. Also these rebbots that are being born will die soon also, menaing their popultaion is filling and taking away, then refilling again and again with them dying.

Explanation:

Answer 2

The population of rabbits could have overrun human population ordinarily, but the presence of limiting factors would hinder it.

The limiting factors are biotic and abiotic environmental factors that prevents the population of organisms from getting to their biotic potential. In other words, limiting factors will not let the population of organisms grow perpetually. These factors include:

• Competition for limited resources
• Diseases
• Natural disasters
• Predation

In the real sense, the earth has the maximum number of individuals from each species it can support based on the resources it has, otherwise known as carrying capacity. Thus, the population of any species of living organism cannot grow without checks.

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