This paper is concern with the traveling waves for a modified Holling-Tanner predator-prey model with degenerate diffusion. Different from the established approaches of constructing upper-lower solutions, we construct a new and suitable pair of upper-lower solutions by solving three differential equations and establish the existence of traveling waves for any c ≥ c∗ when n ≥ 0. In addition, we obtain the minimal wave speed c∗ = 2√r when n = 0, without reconstructing the upper-lower solutions. Furthermore, the asymptotic behavior of traveling waves at infinity is obtained by the upper-lower solutions and the contracting rectangle method.
Mathematics Subject Classification. 35C07, 35A01, 35K10.