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Case 6.7 Individuals For Every Kilometer
There are 6.7 individuals for every kilometer. They live on coastlines and river banks and they eat crabs, mollusks, fish and insects and small amphibians. They started their population about 2000 years ago and originated from a raccoon form. One major adaption this organism went through was it had to learn to eat crabs because of an environmental change. The crab-eating raccoon had to adapt to eat crabs because of a major environment
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