Blood moves very slowly through capillaries. As the blood moves through a capillary, nutrients, oxygen, and food leave the blood and enter the body cells. ... Capillaries are exchange vessels. Gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide), nutrients, and wastes pass in both directions across capillary walls.
The grassland preserve, without the lion pride, will have an increase on antelope and zebra, therefore decreasing the amount vegetation as they eat the vegetation, without a control in the population, this could be potentially dangerous for the preserve