This brings to mind the well-known Darwin-Huxley classic account of a web of complex relations: 

The success of England's vast red clover fields was dependent upon the presence of pollinating bumblebees which were  more prevalent around settlements because bumblebee comb-and-larvae field mice were scarce due predation by cats from the villages.  

In addition, British cattle fed on the red clover, and the British Navy fed on bully beef. Old maids kept the cats that ate the mice that couldn't eat the bees that pollinated the clover eaten by eaten by the cattle that fed the British Navy.

We can amplify this explanation by suggesting that the success of the British Navy was dependent upon the number of men that manned and built the ships that fought the battles. Men in the Navy results in spinsters at home and, inevitably, Tabby Love.

PLB

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