A single predator charging a herd of prey: effects of self volume and predator-prey decision-making

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/22/225601zbMATH Open1342.92200arXiv1609.07855OpenAlexW3105226306MaRDI QIDQ3186247FDOQ3186247

Authors: Maria Schwarzl, Aljaž Godec, Gleb Oshanin, Ralf Metzler 

Publication date: 9 August 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the degree of success of a single predator hunting a herd of prey on a two dimensional square lattice landscape. We explicitly consider the self volume of the prey restraining their dynamics on the lattice. The movement of both predator and prey is chosen to include an intelligent, decision making step based on their respective sighting ranges, the radius in which they can detect the other species (prey cannot recognise each other besides the self volume interaction): after spotting each other the motion of prey and predator turns from a nearest neighbour random walk into direct escape or chase, respectively. We consider a large range of prey densities and sighting ranges and compute the mean first passage time for a predator to catch a prey as well as characterise the effective dynamics of the hunted prey. We find that the prey's sighting range dominates their life expectancy and the predator profits more from a bad eyesight of the prey than from his own good eye sight. We characterise the dynamics in terms of the mean distance between the predator and the nearest prey. It turns out that effectively the dynamics of this distance coordinate can be captured in terms of a simple Ornstein-Uhlenbeck picture. Reducing the many-body problem to a simple two-body problem by imagining predator and nearest prey to be connected by a Hookean bond, all features of the model such as prey density and sighting ranges merge into the effective binding constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07855

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zbMATH Keywords

diffusionpredator-prey modelfirst passage process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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