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Show NATURE HOLDS BALANCE EVEN, Creatures That Prey, and Those That Are Preyed Upon, Have Natural Increase Limited. However smart and awake to th frequent dangers that' may at any; time assail them, the creatures thafi; are preyed upon' are often caught ; that' preying ones get them from time tot time, and if this were not so they: would Increase beyond all bounds. ItJ is true also that- those that prey oftenf go hungry, andthey, too, have enemies or diseases, which later amount to the, same thing In the struggle for existence exist-ence and the limiting of numbers. Soi nicety Is nature balanced as a gen- era! thing between the killers and th 1 killed that If but an unusual influence-enters influence-enters in, as an additional number ofi carnivorous creatures in any neighborhood, neighbor-hood, or the growing up of an addli tlonal amount of cover, there will be ai falling off, on the one hand, or a considerable con-siderable increase, on the other, of those animals that are preyed upon. Thus Is seen the influence, both' ' ways, of man's part in nature's com-, plicated contest. The gunners and trappers weigh heavily in overbalanc- ing the otherwise normal balance against both flesh and vegetable eat-- ' ers, and where, In the unusual goodness good-ness of his heart, man has endeavored over considerable areas to protect nearly all wild life, the result is shown by a rapid increase among the 1 protected animals. |