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Group living and hungry lions

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Ecologists have necessarily had to simplify matters in looking at predator–prey dynamics. Study of a situation in which predator and prey live in groups reveals that a key process was previously overlooked.

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Figure 1: Group theory.

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  1. Tim Coulson is in the Department of Life Science, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK. t.coulson@imperial.ac.uk,

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Coulson, T. Group living and hungry lions. Nature 449, 996–997 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449996a

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