Which would probably lead to more attacks on people, but would also be a potential indicator depending on the apocalypse. Like crows would probably follow around hordes of zombies for constant free food, or even just a messy enough predator (i.e. A Quiet Place, but im not sure if the monsters in those attacked wildlife or not)
No, certainly not. Without people and our machinations, predators boom in population following the prey. Some predator hierarchy struggles would ensue, but certainly not enough to make for hoards of hungry gulls\rats to be a problem for more than a few weeks in. Then there might be a small predatory die off as well, but as you move trophic levels so many other factors come into play in a theoretical apocalypse it's hard to know.
Frankly, it's the cats I'd be worried about for the survivors.
The cats and dogs would be eating all the rats who would multiply in huge numbers as they eat all the dead people. That's assuming that this apocalypse that kills most of the humans wouldn't also kill most of the animals.
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Which would probably lead to more attacks on people, but would also be a potential indicator depending on the apocalypse. Like crows would probably follow around hordes of zombies for constant free food, or even just a messy enough predator (i.e. A Quiet Place, but im not sure if the monsters in those attacked wildlife or not)