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What do wildlife managers call the extra animals beyond what a habitat can support?

Biological surplus.

  1. Breeding stock
  2. Limiting factor
  3. Biological surplus ✔

Why: Most game animals produce more young than the habitat can hold. Those extras can be harvested without hurting the core population, and many would otherwise die from starvation, disease or other causes.

Huh, didn't know that: The animals that survive to the next year become the breeding stock for the next generation.

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What do you call a line of rabbits walking backward? A receding hare line.
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Sources

  1. Connecticut DEEP Hunter Safety Manual, Chapter 15: Wildlife Conservation https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DEEP/hunting_trapping/pdf_files/Hunter_Safety_Manual/Chapter15.pdf

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