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If the lions ever outnumber the wildebeest on either side of the river, even for a moment, their instincts will kick in, and the results won't be pretty.
What's the fastest way for all six animals to get across without the lions stopping for dinner?
For instance, there are five options for who goes across first: one wildebeest, one lion, two wildebeest, two lions, or one of each.
Sending two lions, or one of each animal, can actually both lead to solutions in the same number of moves.
Now, if the wildebeest stays and the lion returns, there will be three lions on the right bank.
So that's a dead end, which means that at the third crossing, only the two lions can go.
One gets dropped off, leaving two lions on the left bank.
Well, since we've got two lions waiting on the left bank, the only option is for two wildebeest to cross.
And if two lions go back, they'll outnumber the wildebeest on the right bank.
Again, there's no point in sending the lion-wildebeest pair back, so the next trip should be either a pair of lions or a pair of wildebeest.
If the lions go, they'd eat the wildebeest on the left, so they stay, and the two wildebeest cross instead.
All that's left is for that one lion to raft back and bring his fellow lions over one by one.
The solution that involves sending both lions on the first step works similarly, and also takes eleven crossings.
These are sea lions in Australia doing their own dance, by David Doubilet.
Sea lions got sleek.
Sunning themselves on rocks or waddling awkwardly across the beach, it’s easy to think of these immobile mammals less as sea lions, and more as sea house cats.
Under the waves, sea lions are incredible endurance hunters.
To find their favorite food, sea lions hunt much deeper than many of their semi-aquatic peers.
Once they arrive at their hunting ground, sea lions depend on their superior vision to find their prey.
But sea lions need to see their best at hundreds of meters deep.
Sea lions have full directional control over these whiskers, which can lie flat against their face, or stick out at a 90-degree angle.
And they’re precise enough to let blindfolded sea lions tell the difference between objects less than two centimeters different in size.
There’s even evidence that sea lions can remember how to perform tasks after 10 years with no practice in between, letting them navigate old stomping grounds with ease.
Yet despite these incredible adaptations, there are changes unfolding in their habitats too rapidly for sea lions to handle.
This algae is harmless to the fish who eat it, but for the sea lions which ingest those fish, the algae’s domoic acid can trigger seizures and brain damage.
Changing ocean conditions keep this algae blooming year round, causing more and more sea lions to wash up on beaches.
And the more we can learn about the changing ocean that sea lions inhabit, the better equipped we’ll be to help these clever creatures thrive.
Purity's confidence to chase down lions and catch poachers, it didn't come from her athletic ability or even just her faith.
Like tigers and lions, only much smaller.
Many people are working to stop lions from disappearing, but very few of these people are native to these countries or from the communities most affected.
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