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On today's Why It's the Way It Is, we're going to talk about something called predator swamping.

You might hear that in picture of wolf running through a swamp.

That's not what this is, though predator swamping can involve wolves.

Predator swamping is a strategy. It's a technique or a way in which prey animals,

meaning animals that are consumed by other animals,

in which prey animals can produce their babies

in a way that reduces,

or diminishes the chance that their babies

are going to be killed by predators.

Now, to do this, let's picture ourselves up in the Arctic, okay, up in the far north.

So let's say we're going to go up to the top end of Alaska, where the northern end of Alaska where the northern border of Alaska comes up against the

Arctic Ocean. There aren't any trees up there. It's a type of low brush called

Tundra. It's a type of low brush called tundra.

It's a lot of water, a lot of mosquitoes.

There's a consistent wind that comes off the ocean,

okay?

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