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another interpretation

May 11, 2008 by mitteldorf, 1 year 25 weeks ago
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Alternatively, this set of behaviors may be described as two separate responses to crowding: cannibalism and migration are both adaptations in response to the fact that the local population of locusts is too high for the local supply of food.

Josh Mitteldorf
Ecology and Ev Biology
U of Arizona

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