SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: "The Hunters," Continued
Under the pen name Mason Winfield (c) 2001
I couldn't imagine what this had to do with either his ex-wife or a flintlock pistol, but he continued. "You notice another curiosity, though, that can seem quite contradictory. Many predators have a small menu, sometimes even a single species to whose capture and consumption they are tailor-made. They may be so specialized that they can't catch or eat anything else. Take their prey away and they starve. They may prefer only certain individuals among the prey species, maybe feeding on only small parts and needing to feed often. Whatever. So in many cases you get this odd combination of danger for both species, predator and prey. You get situations in which the predator has no choice but to pu
