Trade-off and chaotic dynamics of prey-predator system with two discrete delays (Q6548672)

In this paper, the authors give a two-dimensional ODE model on predator-prey interactions to investigate these crucial and intriguing dynamics. By introducing a new function, the authors modify the natural mortality rate of predators such that they suffer more when they come into interaction with prey but do not disappear entirely even when the prey population is drastically increased. The authors studied the existence, potential local stability, positivity and boundedness of the solutions. The authors also demonstrated that the system undergoes co-dimension one bifurcations: saddle node bifurcation, transcritical bifurcation, and Hopf bifurcation. Their results strongly suggest that incorporating predator loss due to interaction with risky prey is essential for a more accurate and realistic understanding of the dynamics of prey-predator systems. To further grasp this trade-off, the authors identify the threshold of handling time for our set of parametric values. The authors performed sensitivity analysis on the system with regard to all parameters and concluded that the system is particularly sensitive to the natural death rate, net gain of predator, intrinsic growth rate of prey, degree of fear of prey, predator loss, and attack rate of predator. The main reference is the work of \textit{J. S. Brown} et al. [Israel J. Ecol. Evol. 62, No. 3--4, 196--204 (2016; \url{doi:10.1080/15659801.2016.1207298})].