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Originally Posted by SeaKing
 I threw that predator thing in thinking about big book stores swallowing little book stores until finally there was only one. Sounds like that movie with the line "there can only be one."
Anyway, sure the big fish has grown and there are not really any good sized fishes to eat but it can subsist on plankton, algae, kelp and such as well as the little tiny winy fish (minnows like individual customers) that it has to expend a great deal of energy chasing.
Then all of a sudden those damn fishing birds start diving into the water and grabbing the larger little minnows, and those bears and people with hooks and fish spears start grabbing the little minnows and they aren't afraid of taking a big predator fish either. It can be tough out there in the wild, and it takes a while for a big predator fish to evolve wings, or legs to walk on the ground.
How is that for an ecosystem. (Next we will bring in army ants, and alligators!) |
As long as there are no head-chopping scots running around it should be safe enough here.
If we're talking ecosystem adaptation, there's the aussie shark story from last week: with the changing water temps, two close-kin shark variants have been hybridizing.
For B&N, hybridizing might be reducing book floorspace and selling other products, just as other retailers are encroaching on their food supply.
