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Plant, tiger, rabbit, fox, hawk

Did you find any connection among the above list of things? If we remove Rabbit from the list what will happen?

Plant, tiger, rabbit, fox, hawk is the part of food chain and food web.



i. Rabbit eats grass (herbivores).


ii. If the rabbit is removed from the given food web, the grass population will increase enormously in absence of herbivore.


iii. The population of fox, tiger, and hawk will decrease in absence of their food (rabbit).


iv. Therefore, an imbalance will be created in a given ecosystem.


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