Question

A. Explain what happened to the buffalo and wildebeest populations in terms of population growth models.

B. What do you expect will happen to these populations going forward?

Answer 1

answer a)

There is a high biodiversity, Diverse terrain.Low predator count in comparison to prey count.Buffalo are animals that live in the Serengeti and the buffalo population increased a lot from 1960 to 1975. The Serengeti is in Tanzania. It is a large area. There are a bunch of animals on the Serengeti. Scientists are studying then by taking photographs.
For its size, it has a large number of large animals that eat plants., It has a lot of biodiversities and that is why the population of buffaloes in the Serengeti changes so much.In response to the changing and unpredictable food supply, the wildebeest migrate across the landscape, producing one of the most spectacular phenomena in nature. The pattern of rapid initial growth that later stabilizes at a constant number of individuals that pattern is known as logistic population growth. Buffalo and wildebeest live about the same amount of time (20 years) but wildebeest females can have babies earlier and they have a shorter gestation period.

answer b)

The largest changes were caused by the elimination of the rinderpest, when Buffalo and wildebeest and other animals that preyed on them like lions increased a lot. We can see from the interactions we've
modeled that the wildebeest population just keeps steady or grows, even when other organisms are changing.