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Cannibalism of the young allows individual fish to specialize

Whitefish, Arctic char, threespine stickleback and some sunfishes display quite discrete groups living in the same lakes but utilizing different food resources in order to survive. The phenomenon is called "resource polymorphism." Why don't all species show this pattern? Early cannibalism is found in all species displaying resource polymorphism.

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