Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Gould , Stephen Jay (1992), Ever Since Darwin, W. W. Norton & Company, Retrieved on 2013-06-10
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    10 JUN 2013

     Strategy of Predator Satiation

    An effective strategy of predator satiation involves two adaptations. First, the synchrony of emergence or reproductions must be very precise, thus assuring that hte market is truly flooded, and only for a short time. Secondly, this flooding cannot occur very often, lest predators simply adjust their own life cycle to predictable times of superfluity. If bamboos flowered every year, seed eaters would track the cycle and present their own abundant young with the annual bounty. But if the perio...
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    Cicadas have evolved the strategy of mass-producing in such numbers that the predators cannot eat them all.

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