

Now given that, as hunting pressure in an area supposedly dictates that the higher animals should be even harder to find within that pressured purple zone, why is it that they are suddenly showing up, when they were not so obvious prior to that?

IMO I am experiencing on Xbox, using Need Zone management strategies, what seems to obviously be a respawning of lower level kills which begins to produce higher level animals in the area, that did not appear to be there previously. Others suggest that the spawning is entirely random and unaffected by hunting pressure, or harvests of lower levels. Some will tell you that harvesting lower level animals will initiate a respawning of higher levels eventually leading up to an opportunity at a diamond potential.
