Science Reveals the Shockingly Simple Step You Can Take to Stop COVID-19
Hint: It’s not quarantines or masks
If you want to keep a rabbit population in check, killing rabbits doesn’t help.
Sound like the most bizarre hook for an article you’ve ever read? Let’s take a step back for a moment.
Rabbits are among the most prolific breeders in the animal kingdom. A single female rabbit can have up to 12 babies every 30 days. In less than six months, all of those rabbits can then start making little rabbits of their own.
In 3 years, one mommy rabbit can produce 50,000+ descendants. Unconstrained, in 7 years, she could have 95 billion. Rabbit populations are a classic example of exponential growth. They build slowly at first, and then quickly mushroom to outlandish numbers.
So why isn’t the world overrun by hundreds of billions of rabbits? Because the environment only has the capacity to support a certain finite number of their fluffy ilk.
Hit that number, and it doesn’t matter how fast your bunnies breed. There aren’t enough resources to support more, and the population levels off. That critical number is called the “carrying capacity” of the environment.
