I Made an Ecosystem That’s Only Predators

/ 7 days ago October 17, 2025

From Curious Archive.

You know how ecosystems have predators and prey? I made an ecosystem that’s… a little different. | Watch my exclusive video ‘What Animals Could Humans Beat in a Fight?’ by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/curiousarchive
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Check out MinuteLabs.io’s amazing program for simulating natural selection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nMo8T3T0L4
Or the Primer videos on natural selection simulation that inspired it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNMkADpvO4w

0:00 An Ecosystem of Predators
0:24 The Trouble with Energy
1:49 Good Herbivores, Bad Carnivores
3:40 Simulating Natural Selection
6:08 Predators of Predators (of Predators)
8:19 What about Humans?
10:01 Animal Domestication Problems
12:33 The Truth about Carnivores
14:31 A Predator that Hunts Humans
16:26 (BRIEF RANT)
17:58 Teamwork Makes the Dream(work)
20:40 The Completed Ecosystem
22:44 So What Animals Could Humans Beat in a Fight?

Media Shown: Minecraft, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Dracula

♫ Music licensed from Epidemic Sound

Sources:

"Human caused biodiversity decline started millions of years ago?" (2020) by University of Gothenburg https://www.gu.se/en/news/human-caused-biodiversity-decline-started-millions-of-years-ago
"Group size, individual role differentiation and effectiveness of cooperation in a homogeneous group of hunters" (2014) by R Escobedo, C Muro, L Spector, R P Coppinger https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4006263/
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"Physical evidence of predation in Tyrannosaurus rex" (2013) by Robert A DePalma II, David A Burnham, Larry D Martin, Bruce M Rothschild, Peter L Larson https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3732924/
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