This was the counter story that I was worried about getting called out on. Just seems too convenient, but I suppose it's possible. Like, jellyfish blooms didn't cause the massive die offs in the ocean, but they took advantage. :Shrug:
For what it is worth I took a class on this subject last year from a professor who is well respected in the field, and we evaluated all the possible explanations for the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction - the most well supported theory was hunting by humans. For larger animals that we didn't kill directly, we still eliminated their populations by overhunting their smaller prey ("predator crash").
This was the counter story that I was worried about getting called out on. Just seems too convenient, but I suppose it's possible. Like, jellyfish blooms didn't cause the massive die offs in the ocean, but they took advantage. :Shrug:
For what it is worth I took a class on this subject last year from a professor who is well respected in the field, and we evaluated all the possible explanations for the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction - the most well supported theory was hunting by humans. For larger animals that we didn't kill directly, we still eliminated their populations by overhunting their smaller prey ("predator crash").
Vindication