What Happens When Predators Disappear?
Every single one of these is quietly holding entire ecosystems together right now. Remove any one of them and things don't just get a bit worse — they fall apart in ways nobody saw coming. In this video we cover what actually happened when predators were removed from real ecosystems, ten animals and what would happen if they vanished tomorrow, and why the thing everyone's scared of might be the thing holding everything together. Subscribe for more videos about the natural world and the darker side of history. Sources: Wolf reintroduction — Yellowstone National Park, 1995. Ripple et al. (2025), Global Ecology and Conservation Sea otter trophic cascade — Estes & Palmisano (1974), Science Robert Paine starfish experiment — Paine (1966), American Naturalist Cod collapse — Newfoundland fishery, early 1990s. Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation records Shark decline/ray population — Myers et al. (2007), Science #nature #animals
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