Jararaca pit vipers: Giant' specimens proliferation linked to fewer predators. In São Paulo, Brazil, it is the lesser presence of predators, not large food supply, that can explain why an isolated green area concentrates more giant pit vipers than a wide forest reserve. Source 6m.
It’s fascinating how a small change in the environment has such a large chain reaction. I suppose this can be classified as a butterfly effect. How is the proliferation of this viper, caused by the elimination of it’s predator, going to effect the populations of it’s prey or the population of other competitors for the same food source?