Why Don’t Predators Hunt Their Prey into Extinction?

English - October 20, 2020 07:00 - 11 minutes - 11.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 869 ratings
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Learn about why predators don’t hunt their prey into extinction, then discover the history of crossword puzzles from author Adrienne Raphel!

Why Don’t Predators Hunt Their Prey Into Extinction? By Cameron Duke

Dickman, C., Nimmo, D., Ritchie, E., & Doherty, T. (2019, May 14). Invasive predators are eating the world’s animals to extinction – and the worst is close to home. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/invasive-predators-are-eating-the-worlds-animals-to-extinction-and-the-worst-is-close-to-home-64741Krohne, D. T. (2018). Ecology : evolution, application, integration. Oxford University Press.PREDATOR-PREY DYNAMICS. (2019). Utk.Edu. http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~gross/bioed/bealsmodules/predator-prey.htmlThe Red Queen | The American Naturalist. (2020). The American Naturalist. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/283213?journalCode=an

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