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Predator-Prey Models

Lang Moore and David Smith, Duke University

with the assistance of
Jer-Chin Chuang, Furman University
John Michel, Marietta College

Purpose: To develop and explore the Lotka-Volterra model for predator-prey interactions as a prototypical first-order system of differential equations

Prerequisite: The module on Numerical Solutions of differential equations

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Photo credits: (left) Prairie Rattlesnake, Charles M. Russell NWR, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, photo by Bill Iko; (right) Bald Eagle, National Park Service.

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