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Originally Posted by Bobby-Joe
So you are saying that predators don’t evolve in response to better defensive strategies of their prey? What do they do, rely on charitable suicides when they can not longer catch things? This sounds like a very liberal idea, even animals don’t need to get out and work.
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Predators don't evolve specific traits in direct response to specific mutations in prey, and more than fish sprout legs and lungs and chase Pamela Anderson up the beach in order to evade sharks. . Those predators who are able to continue to catch prey survive and pass on their genes. Those that can't, die. And I don't know of any predators that depend on one species of prey for their entire diet. So even if one species became unavailable as prey, others would be.