Interesting stuff. I wonder what their mathematical model shows when the prey animals organize and very effectively defend themselves. I remember seeing a show on Nat Geo a while back about an island in some river delta in which a herd of water buffalo were one of the two dominant species—the other species being the single pride of lions which fed on that one herd. Because the river was wide and deep for a large part of the year, limiting the ability of the animals on the island to travel back and forth from the river's banks to the island, the island made a seemingly handy microcosm of life on the veld between predators and prey.psijac wrote:A mathematician in L.A. has further linked Predatory mentality in criminals and is using models based off Tibet Hunter/Gatherers to reduce crime
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The problem was that the water buffalo did not behave like regular water buffalo. They not only used the normal defensive tactics of "mainland" water buffalo—forming protective phalanxes of outward facing horns, behind which the calves were hiding, and injuring the occasional lion foolish enough to attempt a frontal assault—but these island water buffalo began to actually hunt the lions, pursuing them into their den areas and killing them. In short, hunters became hunted, and prey became predator.
It's tempting to draw a parallel between this nature story and an armed citizenry.
