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Prey Switching in a Simple Ecosystem

On the island of Newfoundland, which has few species of mammals, lynxes preyed on snowshoe hares until the hare population "crashed." Then the lynxes switched to caribou calves, and the cycle continues

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 249 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Prey Switching in a Simple Ecosystem” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 249 No. 6 (), p. 130
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1283-130