[The surprised sympathy she senses from him rings unfamiliar, but not welcome. She's in the vast minority when it comes to this thing that she's taken so much for granted, and it's strange to realize that. When she replies it's not with any echo of trauma or horror, just a curious surprise at having to explain for the first time.]

Oh, hm- it.... got pretty messy. Uhm- the other species is a predatory one, you see. We had a lot of natural disasters at one point, and they got aggressive when our populations became disordered.

[That's one way to put it.]

Things happen how they do, I guess! We've been trying to cope.