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The island fox, Urocyon littoralis, is endemic to the Channel Islands, which are located off the coast of southern California. Six of the eight Channel Islands support fox populations, and each of these islands is home to a distinct subspecies, as shown in the table below.
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The island fox shares a common ancestor with the gray fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, which is found on the mainland. Both species have similar coloration and a diploid chromosome number of 66. One structural difference between the two species is the reduced size of the island fox, a feature known as dwarfism. The various island subspecies also differ from each other in size, number of tail vertebrae, and other characteristics.
The phylogenetic tree below shows the evolutionary relationships between the island fox subspecies and the gray fox. Drag the labels to their appropriate locations on the tree.
First, drag the blue labels onto the blue targets to identify the common ancestors at the branch points.
Next, drag one white label onto the white target to identify the homologous characteristic.
Then, drag one pink label onto the pink target to identify the relationship between the two species.

During the rainy season, and just as the dry season starts, food is abundant for all finches. However, as the dry season wears on, the seeds they eat become harder to find and competition becomes an important factor in survival.
When a serious drought lasting 2.5 years hit Daphne, the only finches that survived were the ones that could find enough food; seeds that they could not split open did not contribute to survival. Heavy mortality in a population means there is strong selection for heritable traits that help individuals survive and reproduce.
For example, G. magnirostris eat large seeds, and G. magnirostris can outcompete all other finches. The Big Birds and G. fortis fight over smaller seeds and water holes, but the Big Birds are dominant to G. fortis because they are almost twice the size of G. fortis.

Given what you know about G. fortis, G. magnirostris, and the Big Bird lineage, what do you predict will happen as the drought continues?

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