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Then how did these things not go extinct? Before humans got involved it had to balance out, there was no choice. Predators if they got too large a population started to starve. As there were less predators the animals they ate multiplied. If there was no balance either predator or prey would cease to exist. Only when humans come along can they really screw it up. It is amazing how many humans think the world started a couple hundred years ago.Anyone who has spent very much time in the wild, and especially anyone who has actually lived in the wild knows that there exists absolutely no "balance". Scientists who have lived in the wild are the first to tell you this.
This is a myth perpetrated primarily by those who have never been challenged by a life in the wild where EXTREMES are the norm, and wild fluctuations are the regular order of the day: In animal populations, in climate, and in natural disasters (fire, etc.). The myth centers around an idea that if humans just left well enough alone, all in the wild would stabilize.
Not so.
Nature does not "strive for", nor "seek", nor "gravitate toward" ANY sort of balance, and it never has existed. Anywhere.