A female rabbit can give birth to over 40 baby rabbits a year. Suppose all of her

offspring survived and reproduced, all of their offspring survived and

reproduced, and so on. If that happened, in only eight years the mass of rabbits

would exceed the mass of Earth! So, why aren't we overrun with rabbits? What

keeps the rabbit population in check?

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Biology

Emelia Lane

25 April, 22:45

A female rabbit can give birth to over 40 baby rabbits a year. Suppose all of her

offspring survived and reproduced, all of their offspring survived and

reproduced, and so on. If that happened, in only eight years the mass of rabbits

would exceed the mass of Earth! So, why aren't we overrun with rabbits? What

keeps the rabbit population in check?

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Jeffery Hanna · Answer 1

Answer:320 we are not over run because first of all the earth is huge and rabbits die to

Tamia Rojas · Answer 2

Predeators such as us and others that eat these rabbits keep their population in check. Also these rebbots that are being born will die soon also, menaing their popultaion is filling and taking away, then refilling again and again with them dying.