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The population of a city is based on humans, which take 15 to 20 years before they have young. Wildlife typically takes "some crazy short period of time" like a

The population of a city is based on humans, which take 15 to 20 years before they have young. Wildlife typically takes "some crazy short period of time" like a year, and so when we say the population has double, tripled, etc. most people will (reasonably) understand that to mean that's because of reproduction, not because of migration. So if the cause is migration, the headline kind of needs that, as we're talking about wildlife and not human settlements.

baddox 7y ago
> most people will (reasonably) understand that to mean that's because of reproduction Subjective claims are fine, maybe you misunderstood the headline (although by definition anyone complaining about the wording actually didn't misunderstand it). But that's an empirical claim that could be tested. And my suspicions are that almost no one in the target audience would think for one second that the bears have reproduced enough in less than one year to quadruple in population.