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For my project I wanted to come up with a model that depicts how different animals allocate their energy towards growth and reproduction.  In this model, all the turtles will have a limited amount of energy they could devote to growth/reproduction.  I will create different life strategies that the animals could follow.  The first strategy will be one in which the animals do not devote much energy to growth, reproduce early and have many offspring.  The cost to this strategy will be that all the animals might not survive.  Another type of strategy will be one in which the animals spend more energy towards growth and reproduce later in life. In this case they would have much fewer offspring but they have a greater chance of survival.  A third strategy could have animals devote an equal amount of energy to growth and reproduction.  I will then make a graph showing the number of offspring of each type over time.  I am hoping we will see how different patterns of complex behavior evolve over time given certain environmental costs and benefits.

These are just some initial thoughts and I am still in the process of coming up with a plan of how to do this using netlogo.