Re:Goat Rental – Hire Goats
by wikfwikf on Friday August 12, 2022 @08:24AM
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These are two contradictory reasons. Rabbits are considered invasive because there is a non-zero chance they will escape the hawk and reproduce.
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It's not contradictory in the slightest, the odds of a domesticated and domestic rabbit surviving predation are effectively nil.
The odds that it manages a litter first are higher, especially if it escapes pregnant, which rabbits generally are if they're able to be. Those pups are feral, not domestic, and have moderately better odds. Given enough generations, the domesticated neoteny is selected out by predation and now you have an invasive population of feral rabbits which can survive in the wild.
Everyone dies eventually.