Those things don't just pop up and stay in one spot, they move up the chain faster than you can reload a rifle. The big predators start eating anything that gives them an advantage—plants, insects, even other mutated beasts—so their numbers drop and the whole local food web shifts. Lower plants get overgrown, smaller predators get starved, and habitats that once had a balance become either overgrown or barren. It's a domino effect, and if you want to keep the ecosystem from going overrun, you gotta hit the high‑value targets first.

I’ve seen a lot of those buffer ideas in the field, and they’re usually just a distraction. If you’re going to set up a controlled predator, make sure it’s a species you know can handle the environment and won’t just turn into the next problem. The simplest fix is to keep the top predators where they belong—kill them where they spawn, stop them from moving in. That keeps the food chain in balance without adding another variable you can’t predict.