Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Predator and Prey Lab



For this lab we had a fun little activity
of throwing papers and trying to hit other papers.
Basically we tried to simulate an environment where wolves and rabbits live together. From the graph we can see that the relationship between the number of  wolves and the rabbits are inversely connected. When there are less wolves, then there are more rabbits and when there are more wolves then there are less rabbits and if we do this process long enough it should start to stabilize and begin to look like sin and cosine curves with small amplitudes meaning that the population is reaching equilibrium.Also, in different environments the different colored rabbits have a higher chance to survive because they may be camouflaged. For example, in this activity, the light green rabbits survived the most because the environment was light green and allowed them to survive better.
If it was the arctic tundra then the white rabbits would probably survive better.

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