What kind of competition are you in?

In contest competition, resources can be monopolized by the animals potentially fighting over them.

In scramble competition, resources are too spread out or unwieldy to be monopolized.

A lot of civilizational progress was turning scrambles into contests.

This comes from looking at how food availability changes how animals act with each other.

When food can be controlled, strong animals take food first.

When food can't be taken by one animal, everyone gets less as more animals get food.