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Is anyone familiar with this subject, what its specific branch of study would be called, or what studies/research efforts have been put into the subject?

I'm curious because I was wondering about how historic humans (probably likely definitely) have used hunting, poison or other methods as a means to limit populations of animals that predated on us (tigers, lions, bears, wolves, crocodiles and so on).

I was wondering if there were/are parallels to this seen in other ...