I remember hearing a lecturer a few decades back who described standing on the rim of a volcanic crater on an island in the South Pacific and seeing, two-hundred feet below him, lava glowing and roiling. He returned to his hotel, and from his room he could see the volcano. About two hours after he had been on the rim, he saw the glowing lava spill over the rim and begin running down the sides of the mountain. He thought about the power it had taken to lift that immense weight of molten rock two-hundred feet and begin to eject it. Being of a poetic bent, he thought, "Wondrous indeed is the power of Nature!" Some months later, back in the States, he heard a commercial on the radio for Carter's Little Liver Pills. The company slogan was "Help Nature Along." The lecturer said that if these pills actually had the power to help Nature, he wondered what might have been the effect if he had dropped a few of them into the volcano.

This is by way of introducing what is probably a dumb question:   How did wildlife manage itself before we came along?

Just curious.

Don Firth