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Chapter 56, Problem 7U
When a predator preferentially eats the superior competitor in a pair of competing species
a. the inferior competitor is more likely to go extinct.
b. the superior competitor is more likely to persist.
c. coexistence of the competing species is more likely.
d. None of the choices is correct.
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