Computer modeling of vampire ecologies

[roseembolism]

When I was in college the first time, we had a neat ecological simulator that ran on the primitive Mac's we used. It charted the ecological balance between deer, wolves, and the carrying capacity of the area, and it was really tricky to find parameters that resulted in an even set of population increases and decreases, not a population explosion

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[deirdremoon]

GEEK. :)

[fintach]

Yeah! What she said!

Anyway, I certainly wasn't sitting here wondering about the mathematics of the underlying model and whether or not they'd considered the attrition rate of vampires among their own and they disagreed and competed and . . . I'll just be moving along then, shall I?

[cjsmith]

*nodnod* And I totally did not just forward that link to my Ecology&Evolution professor. :)

[slothman]

There’s also the Moonlight model, where you get hunted down by your fellow vampires if you start acting so indiscreet as to possibly reveal the existence of vampires to the public.

[seawasp]

It occurs to me that this neglects the idea that as the population of vampires increases, the prey suddenly become predators. This inversion does not happen with deer -- they don't suddenly realize they need to kick ass. It is, however, endemic with human beings, who are omnivores and nasty bastards.