Moose Wetland Foraging Lab (2D)

This 2D companion trades the 3D lab's orbiting marsh scene for a readable top-down energy-budget model. Each moose steers toward the nearest still-active forage patch and feeds while inside its radius, restoring energy at a rate the plant-nutrition slider sets; a heavily grazed patch empties and goes dormant for a cooldown before regrowing, so a concentrated herd can outpace regrowth. Scattered mud patches apply a bog-drag speed penalty scaled by the bog-difficulty slider, meaning a herd pinned in difficult wetland spends more of its energy budget just moving and less feeding — the same terrain-versus-forage trade-off that shapes real ungulate habitat selection, made directly adjustable instead of just implied by a static scene.