. Fig. 8. In a fight against snow and cold the bison can hold his own wholesale destruction of individuals by starvation, in which the strongest alone survive. The competition for food is, therefore, the chief element in the struggle for existence. There is no common food supply for all species, but everything, from the biggest to the littlest, from the strongest to the weakest, lives upon its neighbor, and it is literally true that the chief concern of each inhabitant of the wild, and the one upon which he bestows most of his time and his principal attention, is to secure something to eat and
. Fig. 8. In a fight against snow and cold the bison can hold his own wholesale destruction of individuals by starvation, in which the strongest alone survive. The competition for food is, therefore, the chief element in the struggle for existence. There is no common food supply for all species, but everything, from the biggest to the littlest, from the strongest to the weakest, lives upon its neighbor, and it is literally true that the chief concern of each inhabitant of the wild, and the one upon which he bestows most of his time and his principal attention, is to secure something to eat and to avoid, in return, being eaten himself. With one eye on his prey and the other on his enemy he balances his chances and gambles
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