Currently, a fox will eat at most one rabbit at each step. Modify the findFood method so that rabbits in all adjacent locations are eaten at a single step. Asssess the impact of this change on the results of the simulation. Note that findFood method currently returns the location of the single rabbit that is eaten, so you will need to return the location of the one of the eaten rabbits in your version. However, don’t forget to return null if there are no rabbits to eat.
Original Code
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private Location findFood()
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{
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List adjacent = field. adjacentLocations(location);
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Iterator it = adjacent. iterator();
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while(it. hasNext()) {
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Location where = it. next();
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Object animal = field. getObjectAt(where);
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if(animal instanceof Rabbit) {
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Rabbit rabbit = (Rabbit) animal;
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if(rabbit. isAlive()) {
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rabbit. setDead();
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foodLevel = RABBIT_FOOD_VALUE;
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return where;
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}
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}
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}
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return null;
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}