Every voice that is muzzled, every voyage towards understanding that falls prey to jingoistic alarmism, detracts from the collective intelligence on which all of us draw.
The integration of NCE into predator-prey theory is clearly critical for progress towards a comprehensive understanding of predator-prey dynamics.
Much of the recent evidence for inducible defences in freshwater ecology which has contributed to the general understanding of predator-prey interactions has been derived from experimental studies with daphnids.
Such silent understanding between predator and prey belongs to an innate "wild self-sufficiency," a quality, Gibson observes, that centuries of civilization have bred out of domesticated beasts — the human animal among them.
Predicting the ecosystem implications of top predator removal may therefore require a detailed understanding of contemporary evolution in prey, and perhaps knowledge of evolution across the diversity of species linked in food webs.
A better understanding of the evolution of prey capture features in river dolphins will require observational data on the function(s) of these features in extant taxa, which is generally lacking, as well as paleobiological studies on extinct taxa to infer their diets and behaviors.
Meanwhile, the more sophisticated biophiliacs apparently demonstrate their understanding of the whole predator-prey-nature's-balance thing by joining right in.
In this work, we contribute to understanding the dynamics of predator-prey model with cubic growth.
Without skeptical thinking, students' understandings will more easily fall prey to pervasive cognitive biases, a situation well understood by the Intelligent Design movement.
Determining the molecular mechanisms leading to large-scale adaptations of predatory behaviors, including, in this case, relocation of prey, is critical for understanding predator-prey interactions, evolutionary biology and natural history of pit vipers.
