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An investigation in to the affects of different predator densities on the consumption of their prey.
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Introduction One of the greatest factors that affect animal populations is the relationship between predator and prey. Here the population of the prey species due to the availability of food keeps the population of the predator at certain levels, and the population of the predator species due to the corresponding mortality rates, keeps the population of the prey at certain levels. If there is more than one individual predator that feeds on the same prey item, there will always be competition between them. This can be an indirect type of competition where, for example, the predators simply ignore each other and try to maximise their food input, or they can compete in a more direct way which involves hostile, aggressive encounters that can lead to injury or possibly death. Both cases are simply a way in which one animal will try to maximise its own energy input with the...
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