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 **Group 3**
-====== Alternative prey that are disease vectors ======
+====== Healthy diet for wolves  ======
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 Here are some questions you may explore, but further well-grounded insights are also welcome.
-  * You might start with wolves and ungulates only and study the infection dynamics, and only then introduce an alternative prey to see how this balance is altered.
+  * You might start with wolves and ungulates only and study the infection dynamics, and only then introduce an alternative prey to see how this balance is altered. Can you find a biologically plausible set of parameters that leads to coexistence of all populations in your system?
+  * Feeding only on alternative prey (that do not host parasites) would probably lead to the exclusion of the parasites from the system, but could severely impair the population of this alternative prey. What would happen to the dynamics of the system if the prey choice depended on the population sizes of the available prey?
+  * Changing sides in this arms race, what would be the set of parameters that could lead to the maximum prevalence of the parasites in this system? Would this lead to the collapse of the system? Can anything be said about how coevolution might have shaped the interactions between these species?
 ===== References =====
   * Friesen, O.C. and Roth, J.D., 2016. Alternative prey use affects helminth parasite infections in grey wolves. Journal of Animal Ecology.
+===== Results =====
+  * [[http://200.145.112.249/webcast/files/Group_3.pdf|Group presentation]]