Two recent articles by Geisler and Diehl use Bayesian statistical decision theory to model the co-evolution of predator and prey in a simple, game-like environment. The prey is characterized by its coloration. The predator is characterized by the chromatic sensitivity of its visual system and its willingness to attack. The authors demonstrate how the coloration of prey and the perceptual system...

Many organisms use warning, or aposematic, coloration to signal their unprofitability to potential predators. Aposematically colored prey are highly visually conspicuous. There is considerable empirical support that conspicuousness promotes the effectiveness of the aposematic signal. From these experiments, it is well documented that conspicuous, unprofitable prey are detected sooner and aversi...

MAJOR, P. F., L. M. DILL, and D. M. EAVES. 1986. Three-dimensional predator-prey interactions: a computer simulation of bird flocks and aircraft. Can. J . Zool. 64: 2624-2633. Three-dimensional interactions between grouped aerial predators (frontal discs of aircraft engines), either linearly arrayed or clustered, and flocks of small birds were studied using interactive computer simulation techn...

Some scientists are interesting to study in area of harvested ecological modelling. The harvested population dynamics is more realistic than other ecological models. In the present paper, some of the Lotka-Volterra predator-prey models have been considered. In the said models, existing species are harvested by constant or variable growth rates. The behavior of their solutions has been analyzed ...

Throughout the history of ecology, the interaction between predators and their prey has received attention from ecologists. Some of the longest and most well-known data series in ecology are from predator and prey populations, and predator–prey models are among the oldest in the field. Despite these efforts, a discrepancy exists between the behavior of most models and that of natural predator a...

Abstract. In this paper, a mathematical model is proposed and analysed to study the dynamics of a prey-predator model. It is assumed that the habitat is divided into two zones, namely free zone and reserved zone. Predators are not allowed to enter into the reserved zone. Criteria for the coexistence of predator-prey are obtained. The role of reserved zone is investigated and it is shown that th...

The traditional Lotka-Volterra-type predator-prey model has received great attention from both theoretical and mathematical biologists, and has been well studied (see, e.g., [5, 8, 9]). It is assumed in the classical Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model that each individual predator admits the same ability to attack prey. This assumption seems not to be realistic for many animals. In the natural ...

Predators can have remote effects on prey populations that are connected by migration (i.e. prey metapopulations) because predator-mediated changes in prey behavior and abundance effectively transmit the impact of predators into predator-free prey populations. Behavioral changes in prey that might give rise to remote effects are altered rates of migration or activity in the presence of predatio...