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You are put in charge of running a macropodid animal shelter in Australia. You are given a fixed budget (say $10K/month) to cover food purchase. (All other expenses are provided by the local government, and daily animal care is provided free of charge by volunteers.) You must decide what species of macropodids you will look after: brush- tailed bettongs (B), tammar wallabies (W) or red kangaroos (K). Your sole criterion in the decision is to support the greatest biomass, i.e., (number of animals) * (animal body mass) per month. Which species do you choose and why? Explain your choice with calculations. You can assume all three macropodids stay in good health, subsist on the same diet, and neither species breeds in captivity. If you had a choice between looking after wallabies or pythons (of same body mass), which one would be cheaper and why? How could you reduce the cost of care of each of these two species?

You are put in charge of running a macropodid animal shelter in Australia. You are given a fixed budget (say $10K/month) to cover food purchase. (All other expenses are provided by the local government, and daily animal care is provided free of charge by volunteers.) You must decide what species of macropodids you will look after: brush- tailed bettongs (B), tammar wallabies (W) or red kangaroos (K). Your sole criterion in the decision is to support the greatest biomass, i.e., (number of animals) * (animal body mass) per month. Which species do you choose and why? Explain your choice with calculations. You can assume all three macropodids stay in good health, subsist on the same diet, and neither species breeds in captivity. If you had a choice between looking after wallabies or pythons (of same body mass), which one would be cheaper and why? How could you reduce the cost of care of each of these two species?

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You are put in charge of running a macropodid animal shelter in Australia. You are given a fixed budget (say $10K/month) to cover food purchase. (All other expenses are provided by the local government, and daily animal care is provided free of charge by volunteers.) You must decide what species of macropodids you will look after: brush- tailed bettongs (B), tammar wallabies (W) or red kangaroos (K). Your sole criterion in the decision is to support the greatest biomass, i.e., (number of animals) * (animal body mass) per month. Which species do you choose and why? Explain your choice with calculations. You can assume all three macropodids stay in good health, subsist on the same diet, and neither species breeds in captivity. If you had a choice between looking after wallabies or pythons (of same body mass), which one would be cheaper and why? How could you reduce the cost of care of each of these two species?
Transcribed Image Text:You are put in charge of running a macropodid animal shelter in Australia. You are given a fixed budget (say $10K/month) to cover food purchase. (All other expenses are provided by the local government, and daily animal care is provided free of charge by volunteers.) You must decide what species of macropodids you will look after: brush- tailed bettongs (B), tammar wallabies (W) or red kangaroos (K). Your sole criterion in the decision is to support the greatest biomass, i.e., (number of animals) * (animal body mass) per month. Which species do you choose and why? Explain your choice with calculations. You can assume all three macropodids stay in good health, subsist on the same diet, and neither species breeds in captivity. If you had a choice between looking after wallabies or pythons (of same body mass), which one would be cheaper and why? How could you reduce the cost of care of each of these two species?
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