An apex predator is at least cohesive with its ecosystem. An apex predator does not have the capacity to wipe out entire species and ecosystems including themselves, to which this misguided thinking accelerates progressing on that path.
An apex predator is at least cohesive with its ecosystem. An apex predator does not have the capacity to wipe out entire species and ecosystems including themselves, to which this misguided thinking accelerates progressing on that path.
TBF, it mostly looks that way because apex predators that are still around to be studied are the ones who perturb their biome only a little.
"Survivorship bias". Rather hard to study the ones that ate out their biome and didn't make it.
Alien xenozoologists may never learn we existed :D
