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Thus it may be that the optimal strategy for a prey individual may be to run if it is in
the more dangerous search phase, and so we simply observe a prey individual run
the first time that this phase is entered.
We note that in the above work the strategic choices of the predators have been
limited i.e. to attack immediately or wait, or when to cease searching. However,
we have not considered the best active searching strategy of the predator. Some
important work on predator searching strategies has been carried out, with examples
including [ 1 , 10 , 11 ]and[ 5 ]. The choices of predators in general can of course be
important, and in turn influence the choices of the prey, as we have seen in our model
of the stationary predator and hidden prey. This is likely to be true for a variety of
scenarios, and so the choices of both prey and predators should be considered in our
models.
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