A scientist working in East Africa has heard a legend of a super predator that preys on cheetahs. He submits a grant proposal to the MacArthur Foundation to fund an expedition to find this super predator. You are an expert on the MacArthur Foundation panel evaluating his grant proposal and have a feeling that funds for this project would be a waste of time and energy. How could you best argue your feelings with solid biological thinking?

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27 February, 13:11

A scientist working in East Africa has heard a legend of a super predator that preys on cheetahs. He submits a grant proposal to the MacArthur Foundation to fund an expedition to find this super predator. You are an expert on the MacArthur Foundation panel evaluating his grant proposal and have a feeling that funds for this project would be a waste of time and energy. How could you best argue your feelings with solid biological thinking?

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Kadence Pugh · Answer 1

as an expert in the MacArthur foundation panel I would consider the request a waste of time and energy because the "super predator" is unknown and so is its where about. And also while searching for the super predator other animals might be harmed or they might be dislocated from their original habitat.

Searching for the super predator might result in actually killing species that are extinction bound on the face of the earth.