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[–] 14 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

if you want to remove them from the area entirely because they consume too many resources, why would you go to the trouble of performing surgery and re-releasing it to consume more resources instead of just killing it. the former solves the problem in the future, the latter solves the problem now

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There is some benefit to this in some cases: they compete with the others of their species for the same finite set of resources, causing fewer breeders to make offspring. They might also attempt to breed with a fertile mate (unsuccessfully), causing that mate to never produce offspring when they otherwise would have.

    The effectiveness of this is obviously very dependent on the species and their breeding habits, and I know nothing about this one. I'm just talking about the general case.

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