Wildebeest
in sentence
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It can carry up to two animals at a time, and needs as least one lion or
wildebeest
on board to row it across the river.
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.
For instance, there are five options for who goes across first: one wildebeest, one lion, two wildebeest, two lions, or one of each.
Now, if the
wildebeest
stays and the lion returns, there will be three lions on the right bank.
Bad news for the two remaining
wildebeest.
So we need to have the lion stay on the left bank and the
wildebeest
go back to the right.
If two
wildebeest
go, the one that stays will get eaten, and if one of each animal goes, the
wildebeest
on the raft will be outnumbered as soon as it reaches the other side.
The third lion takes the raft back to the right bank where the
wildebeest
are waiting.
Next, there's no sense in two
wildebeest
going back, since that just reverses the last step.
And if two lions go back, they'll outnumber the
wildebeest
on the right bank.
So one lion and one
wildebeest
take the raft back leaving us with one of each animal on the left bank and two of each on the right.
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.
What we found in coral reefs is that the inverted pyramid is the equivalent of the Serengeti, with five lions per
wildebeest.
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