Spoetic my dear Rambo Penguin (please set your machine gun down for a moment and hear me out), my point is that the ecosystem learns by experience.

You know when you try to tell a child not to touch the hot burner on the top of the stove, but since you told him not to do it, then he must do it. So he burns his hand and then he never does it again (unless he is one of those hard-headed types who torments his mother).