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How does the decrease of predators and increase of food make the elk population increase? Please explain

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The decrease of predators would make the elk population thrive, because there would be nothing to hunt them down.

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The decrease of predators would make the elk population thrive, because there would be nothing to hunt them down. And with an increase of food, the elks would have enough to eat therefore the elks would not die from hunger.
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