### Persefone.jl - a model of agricultural landscapes and ecosystems in Europe. ### ### This file holds the code for the Wolpertinger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolpertinger). ### NOT FOR ACTUAL USE! This is of course only a test species ;-) ### Although I dare say the Wolpertinger is probably rather endangered... ### """ The wolpertinger is a mysterious beast, found in the hills and alps of Bavaria. It is purported to have the body of a hare, the wings of a bird, and the antlers of a deer. """ @species Wolpertinger begin popsize = Int(round(1/100000*reduce(*, size(model.landscape)))) fecundity = 0.02 mortality = 0.015 maxspeed = 5 crowding = maxspeed*2 initialise! = initrandompopulation(popsize) """ Wolpertingers are rather stupid creatures, all they do is move around randomly and occasionally reproduce by spontaneous parthogenesis... """ @phase lifephase begin direction = Tuple(@rand([-1,1], 2)) for i in 1:@rand(1:@trait(maxspeed)) walk!(animal, direction, model; ifempty=false) end if @rand() < @trait(fecundity) && @countanimals(species="Wolpertinger") < @trait(crowding) @reproduce(-1) end @kill @trait(mortality) end end