I Made an Ecosystem That's Only Predators

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You know how ecosystems have predators and prey? I made an ecosystem that's... a little different. | Watch my exclusive video 'What Animals Could Humans Beat in a Fight?' by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/curiousarchive --- Check out MinuteLabs.io's amazing program for simulating natural selection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nMo8T3T0L4 Or the Primer videos on natural selection simulation that inspired it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNMkADpvO4w 0:00 An Ecosystem of Predators 0:24 The Trouble with Energy 1:49 Good Herbivores, Bad Carnivores 3:40 Simulating Natural Selection 6:08 Predators of Predators (of Predators) 8:19 What about Humans? 10:01 Animal Domestication Problems 12:33 The Truth about Carnivores 14:31 A Predator that Hunts Humans 16:26 (BRIEF RANT) 17:58 Teamwork Makes the Dream(work) 20:40 The Completed Ecosystem 22:44 So What Animals Could Humans Beat in a Fight? Media Shown: Minecraft, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Dracula ♫ Music licensed from Epidemic Sound Sources: "Human caused biodiversity decline started millions of years ago?" (2020) by University of Gothenburg https://www.gu.se/en/news/human-caused-biodiversity-decline-started-millions-of-years-ago "Group size, individual role differentiation and effectiveness of cooperation in a homogeneous group of hunters" (2014) by R Escobedo, C Muro, L Spector, R P Coppinger https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4006263/ "On the evolution of omnivory in a community context" (2013) by Alex M Chubaty, Brian O Ma, Robert W Stein, David R Gillespie, Lee M Henry, Conan Phelan, Eirikur Palsson, Franz W Simon, Bernard D Roitberg https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3925427/ "Physical evidence of predation in Tyrannosaurus rex" (2013) by Robert A DePalma II, David A Burnham, Larry D Martin, Bruce M Rothschild, Peter L Larson https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3732924/ "The hunters and the hunted revisited" (2000) by Julia Lee-Thorp, J.Francis Thackeray, Nikolaas van der Merwe https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248400904366