The population dynamics of a simple predator-prey system is a classical example shown in many biology textbooks when ecological systems are discussed. The system contains all elements of the scientific method:

• The set up of a specific hypothesis combined with
• the experimental methods needed (one can study existing data or perform experiments)
• analyzing and interpreting the data and performing further experiments if needed
• trying to extract general behaviors and extract eventual laws or patterns
• develop mathematical relations for the uncovered regularities/laws and test these by per forming new experiments