The name of the article I just finished reviewing was “Risk avoidance in sympatric large carnivores: reactive or predictive?”  by Femke Broekhuis, Gabriele Cozzi, Marion Valeix, John W. McNutt and David W. Macdonald. The article reviewed research about the different areas that is found in the Serengeti National Park, the grass plains, the swamps, the woodlands etc. and how different predators that are settled there affecting their interference with each other and with their hunting styles. The predators that the article has focused on were how lions and spotted hyenas affected cheetahs.

            The article explains how having different predators in one space may affect how each of them hunt or how they many interact with one another. The authors of the article had explained how each animal have different hunting styles, the cheetahs are high-speed hunters, so they will thrive in areas that are more open such as grass plains, while the lions are ambush hunters, so they will thrive in areas that are more closed off such as the woodlands. The authors also explain how the cheetahs are able to adjust to the environment that they are in. For example if they were in the grass plains with lions and hyenas they will adapt quicker than the lions.

       While reading the article I wondered how this might affect the other animals, such as herbivores in the area, would they suffer from having more than one predator or will they still thrive? While reading the article I had noticed that the cheetahs are always able to adapt to their environment and adjust their hunting habits for the different areas that they are in, this made me wonder if lions are able to do the same thing.

     This article will help with Kendall’s and I research question because it gives me an idea of other factors to think of that are not just based on the climate and the type of area that the zebras and lions are moving to. The article gave me the idea to look for if other predators in the area affect the migration of lions and zebras.