In some animal species, the intake of food is affected by the amount of vigilance maintained by the animal while feeding. In essence, it is hard to eat heartily while watching for predators that may eat you. In one model,^† if the animal is foraging on plants that offer a bite of size S, the intake rate of food, I(S), is given by a function of the form

where a and c are positive constants.

What happens to the intake I(S) as bite size S increases indefinitely? Interpret your result.

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I(S): aS S + c