You are designing a computer simulation that is meant to virtually mimic patterns of life on our planet. You are beta test running your application, but you have an issue where all the large predatory tertiary consumers are rapidly growing in numbers to unbelievably large population sizes. Which of the following is an example of something you might have incorrectly set in your application that could be causing this population explosion of large predators?
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