In most parts of the world animal predators have all but been eliminated, this may be upsetting ecosystems more than we realized before. “Shooting, trapping, and poisoning… getting rid of them however we can!” As you may have already heard, several species on our planet have dropped in numbers drastically over the years. Approximately 50 years ago there were over 100,000 lions (some say 450,000) roaming the earth, and recent studies show that there are as few as 30,000 in the wild today. Lions are not the only predator where numbers have drastically dropped. A century ago tiger numbers consisted…