Timeline for Why would two species of predator with the same prey cooperate?
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| Jan 5, 2017 at 15:51 | comment | added | JVC | Yeah exactly... there's some balance to be struck to make the concept work, but I think it's got potential outside of the more obvious symbiotic type approaches mentioned by others. | |
| Jan 5, 2017 at 11:46 | comment | added | Brian H. | but if predator A cannot survive without predator B and viceversa, it seems like they would go extinct before even discovering that they need eachother, however, if predator A is just "bad" at getting it's food efficiently, and predator B has a big failure rate at incapacitating (or can only incapacitate small prey), then they could eventually figure the mutual benefits out without going extinct before meeting eachother. | |
| Jan 5, 2017 at 2:17 | history | answered | JVC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |