The program models the interaction of pumas (predator) and hares (prey) in a two-dimensional landscape.
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2 Modelling pumas and hares in a landscape
The program models the interaction of pumas (predator) and hares (prey) in a two-dimensional landscape.
Pumas eat hares. Without hares, pumas decline and die out through lack of food. Without pumas, hares breed
and increase in numbers forever. Both animals tend to spread out (or diffuse) to fill parts of the landscape
where there are fewer of their own kind. Their landscape contains areas of water where neither pumas nor
hares can live.
Partial differential equations can be used to model the behaviour of pumas and hares within a landscape:
