Darwinism

Darwinism

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Rancher/conservationist William Simpson articulates an argument for herding wild horses out of places where they are not wanted up into mountain wilderness areas. But he also has view on the balance between where deer behavior, predation, and wilderness vegetation intertwine.

You know, if you're not pulling out the weak animals, the disease, the animals, any animal that has deformities or some sort of a defect, predators get them right away. And by managing horses with livestock to where the predators have to be removed, you've got to do it. You've deprived the wild or species of their predators, which they need. They need those predators to maintain a strong genetic vigor. They need that, let's say a deer, a baby fawn is born with something as simple as near-sightedness. It won't last two days because with something as simple as near-sightedness, it won't see any predator coming close and bang, it's over. So that eliminates that nearsighted gene. Exactly. That, my friends, is a concept called Darwinism.

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