{"id":2837,"date":"2012-06-29T10:16:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T14:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:50","slug":"predator-prey-interplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2012\/predator-prey-interplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator-Prey Interplay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Predator-Prey Interplay\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Eight hundred and sixty-four caterpillars and counting. PhD candidate&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/http-server.carleton.ca\/~sherratt\/tom_hossie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Hossie<\/a>&nbsp;made that many caterpillars out of a flour and food colouring dough. Why you might wonder? Well, it\u2019s all part of his research on predator-prey interactions. And that research is about to be published in the August issue of&nbsp;<em>Animal Behaviour<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hossie who is supervised by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/tom-sherratt\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Thomas Sherratt<\/a>&nbsp;in the Biology Department at Carleton, says:&nbsp; \u201cIt has been great working with&nbsp;Dr. Sherratt who is a leader in this field. Since I started in his lab, he has allowed me to have full control over my project, but provides critical feedback and guidance to ensure that our research has maximum impact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hossie&#8217;s researched was featured on the BBC Nature website<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/18393777\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/18393777\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton Newsroom covers the story <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2012\/06\/26\/grad-student-aims-discover-secret-caterpillar-eyespots\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hossie\u2019s research blog is available at this&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caterpillar-eyespots.blogspot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight hundred and sixty-four caterpillars and counting. PhD candidate&nbsp;Thomas Hossie&nbsp;made that many caterpillars out of a flour and food colouring dough. Why you might wonder? Well, it\u2019s all part of his research on predator-prey interactions. And that research is about to be published in the August issue of&nbsp;Animal Behaviour. Hossie who is supervised by&nbsp;Dr. Thomas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}