Description

This includes a few changes to do with animals that undergo indirect developmental, proceeding through a metamorphic process where their functional group changes, such as from caterpillar to butterfly.

Included: Animal traits for: development type (direct vs indirect), development status (adult vs larval), and the functional group that is produced by the current functional group through either birth or metamorphosis. This also adds a non-reproductive reproductive type for larval functional groups.

The main methods included are metamorphose and metamorphose_community, creating the change and processing the change over the entire community, respectively.

Fixes # (issue)

Type of change

[x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
[ ] Optimization (back-end change that speeds up the code)
[ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)

Key checklist

[x] Make sure you've run the pre-commit checks: $ pre-commit run -a
[x] All tests pass: $ poetry run pytest

Further checks

[x] Code is commented, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
[x] Tests added that prove fix is effective or that feature works

ImperialCollegeLondon / virtual_ecosystem

Indirect development in animals #450

Description

Type of change

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