The predator-prey game: Revisiting industrial melanism and optimal foraging theory outdoors with biology undergraduates
Shem Unger,
Mark Rollins,
Noah Dyer
Abstract:Teaching natural selection and adaptations in undergraduate biology classrooms is often undertaken with the example of the <i>Biston</i> peppered moth, a well-documented case of industrial melanism. However, the idea of optimal foraging theory, a behavioral ecological model that includes predators searching for prey, may be overlooked when teaching this classic example of natural selection and predator/prey dynamics. To this end, we developed a simulated predator/prey activity to teach both of thes… Show more
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