co-evolution

It was my birthday, and I got to pretend. It was a lot of fun. It was difficult however, because I had to be a knife beaked bird. This activity demonstrated natural selection because we had three different types of bird beaks fighting for different types of food. We had knives, forks, and spoons. Hearing that I was a knife I knew how hard I would have to fight to survive.
This activity demonstrated natural selection because over generations the number of my fellow knives diminished while the other populations flourished. Another natural selection occurred with the food available. The split peas grew large numbers, while the pasta shrunk.  This brought up the fact that the more easily it can be attained the easier it may be wiped out. This made me think of protection factors. The split peas protection was the difficulty of attainability.
This activity demonstrated co-evolution because as one type of beak went up, so did a type of food. the prefered food seemed to have been the noodles, because they were the easiest to obtain. The split peas were the item that got to expand as not many of them were being eaten. spoons were the most successful because they were able to pick up the most food. My food was difficult to obtain because all I could do was was fling my food in the air and try to catch it when I was left by myself.
When I was able to work with others we worked together one person pushing the food onto the others "beak". I felt it was easier to work alone, as I was able to obtain more food that way. If we had had more time to talk before the food scramble we could have made a better strategy for working together. This could be similar to an occurrence in nature. some creatures find working together to be the answer, others working alone. This also goes along with natural selection.
Overall I enjoyed this activity. I have done similar activities before in my science courses. I was reminded especially of my 7th grade science class. We instead had to pick from a variety of tools or utensils as our beak, and then went through a bunch of stations. We saw that some situations our beaks were evolved to fit, in others, not so much. to return to the point, this was an interesting activity that provided a hands on representation of the study at hand. I really enjoyed it.