(I recall the 'Trees Should Have Standing' matter and much of the non-committal blatherscape, since) ... all so utterly predictable where attention spans drop along with general neuronal activity.

Perhaps Nature has decided to induce self-immolation next -?- to spare even more suffering when the 110-degree days arrive regularly.
Still, whether an abrupt cessation of the daily-overpopulating activity, this late ... could come soon enough to rescue the innocent multitudes of other mammals?
seems questionable.

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But I say: let's give it a try; the Smarter-felines-with-opposed thumbs © probably could draw the right behavioral inferences as they commenced filling the species-gap.
Lay-ON MacNature1