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What factors affect animal population growth?
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INTERFERENCE COMPETITION
Other species, such as red grouse, have a type of interspecific competition known as interference competition. In this case more aggressive grouse establish a territory in which they obtain food and cover. Less aggressive birds without territories do not compete successfully for food and often die of starvation. Thus, in interference competition certain individuals obtain an adequate supply of the limited resource at the expense of other individuals in the population.

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