the.com/predator prey
nature's oldest business relationship: one party always ends up on the menu.
means a dynamic where one species survives by eating another, shaping both their evolution in a permanent arms race.
from from latin praedator (plunderer) and Old French preie (booty seized in war) — both words originally meant taking spoils, before biology borrowed them for who eats whom.
lag effectprey populations crash, then predators crash after them
landscape of fearprey change behavior just sensing predators nearby
red queen raceboth sides must keep evolving just to stay even
cheetah paradoxfastest predator on land still loses most chases