### 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 fecundity = 0.02 mortality = 0.015 maxspeed = 5 crowding = 10 end """ Wolpertingers are rather stupid creatures, all they do is move around randomly and occasionally reproduce by spontaneous parthenogenesis... """ @phase Wolpertinger lifephase begin for i in 1:@rand(1:self.maxspeed) @walk("random") #walk!(animal, direction, model; ifempty=false) end if @rand() < self.fecundity && length(@neighbours(100m)) < self.crowding @reproduce() end @kill self.mortality end """ Wolpertingers are mythical creatures that require no special initialisation. """ @create Wolpertinger begin @debug "$(animalid(self)) created." #TODO end """ Population densities of the endangered Wolpertinger are down to 1 animal per km². """ @populate Wolpertinger begin asexual = true initphase = lifephase birthphase = lifephase indarea = 1km² end