WE think plants are gentle, peaceful entities. But really they are not. Looking out at my vegetable patch, i can see a bitter life or death struggle occurring on a daily basis.
Weeds constantly try to take over the space and get higher than the small eggplant and tomato seedlings i have there, and steal their sunlight and their nutrients.
It is a dog eat dog, or maybe I should say, plant starve plant world out there, where the most ruthless and adaptive always seem to come out on top over the smaller, weaker and more set in their domesticated ways others.
Even in a stable ecosystem these battles are continuously raging on, however the net result of the losses and victories between different species even out and a lot of species co-exist in the same space without taking over all of the available resources.