The predator was closing in, and the prey had to make a potentially life-altering choice: find food or flee?
That prey was ecologist David Bolduc. And he was one of many other researchers in a forest in Canada’s Quebec province just trying to stay alive.
“It’s so fun,” he says.
Bolduc, of Université Laval in Quebec City was one player in a game designed to explore predator-prey behaviors in the wild, but with people in place of animals. And following some basic rules, the players did indeed make decisions similar to animals, Bolduc and colleagues report November 17 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
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