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Saheb Pal¹, Mainul Hossain¹, Pijush Panday²

¹Department of Mathematics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan 731235, India.

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Time delays in cooperative hunting impact predator-prey dynamics, causing stability shifts and chaos. The system

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Area of Science:

Ecology
Mathematical Biology
Population Dynamics

Background:

Cooperative hunting is crucial for predator success.
Predator aggregation is often delayed due to communication and coordination challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the ecological impact of time delays in cooperative hunting within a predator-prey model.
To analyze how communication delays affect population dynamics and system stability.

Main Methods:

Development of a mathematical predator-prey model incorporating time delays.
Analysis of system dynamics across various parameter spaces, including bi-parameter planes.
Investigation of system behavior with increasing delay strength and threshold analysis.

Main Results:

Time delays can have both stabilizing and destabilizing effects on the predator-prey system.
Increased delay strength can lead to multiple switches in system dynamics, potentially resulting in chaos.
The system may exhibit multistability, coexistence of multiple attractors, and altered basins of attraction.

Conclusions:

Predator population dynamics are sensitive to the strength and threshold of cooperation delays.
Depending on initial conditions and delay parameters, outcomes can range from stable coexistence to predator extinction.