You Are Studying Two Species in a Community: a Carnivorous

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Essay

You are studying two species in a community: a carnivorous predator and a herbivorous prey species. When analyzing the data, you realize the population size of the predators is very similar to the population size of the prey. What makes this unusual?

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Definitions:

Yeoman Farmer

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Cash Crop

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