A phenomenon raises a question, after which the predictions of hypothetical answers to the question are tested, producing results that are interpreted to lead to a conclusion. The conclusions of eminent scientists are accepted and published without intervention by other, less qualified scientists. Mating polygynously is costly to the females because, on average, two nestlings survive to leave a polygynous nest, whereas three nestlings leave each monogamous nest. At some time in the past all females mated monogamously. At some time in the future, all females will mate polygynously.
Polygynous males produce fewer offspring than do monogamous males.
We see many fewer carnivores than plants in the typical ecosystem because a. carnivores don t eat plants. Cougars, douglas fir trees, streams, fire, soil, rabbits and squirrels and all other components of the environment. Cougars, blackberries and douglas firs, but not the non-living components of the environment. Only all of the cougars in the environment. Taxonomy can best be described as a.