Those animals would starve to death, which means that the animals that eat them would starve as well.

那些动物将会饿死，这意味着以这些动物为食的动物也将饿死。

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Aiming treatment at those animals would reduce the likelihood of resistance emerging without harming a farmer's ability to control infestations.

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They provide a "green backdrop" to the story of charismatic animals at risk and yet without plants, those animals would be at even greater risk of extinction.

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