From the Tasmanian devil example we talked about in class (w…

From the Tasmanian devil example we talked about in class (where in some areas as much as 95% of the devil population has been lost), if all the infected individuals were removed from the population and the spread of the disease were stopped. What would you expect to happen to the devil population?

The black footed ferret (pictured below) is endangered. One…

The black footed ferret (pictured below) is endangered. One of its major food sources, the prairie dog, has recently seen a decline due to a disease called sylvatic plague. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has begun efforts to do drone drops of plague vaccine pellets coated in peanut butter. These pellets would be eaten by prairie dogs. If the vaccination of the prairie dogs works and causes a recovery of the black-footed ferret population, it would be evidence that the black-footed ferret population was being regulated in a(n) _________________ manner.