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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2012, Article ID 236484, 19 pages doi:10.1155/2012/236484 Research Article Stability and Hopf Bifurcation in a Modified Holling-Tanner Predator-Prey System with Multiple Delays Zizhen Zhang,1, 2 Huizhong Yang,1 and Juan Liu3 1 Key Laboratory of Advanced Process Control for Light Industry of Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China 2 School of Management Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu 233030, China 3 Department of Science, Bengbu College, Bengbu 233030, China Correspondence should be addressed to Huizhong Yang, yanghzjiangnan@163.com Received 9 August 2012; Revised 17 September 2012; Accepted 4 October 2012 Academic Editor: Kunquan Lan Copyright q 2012 Zizhen Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A modified Holling-Tanner predator-prey system with multiple delays is investigated. By analyzing the associated characteristic equation, the local stability and the existence of periodic solutions via Hopf bifurcation with respect to both delays are established. Direction and stability of the periodic solutions are obtained by using normal form and center manifold theory. Finally, numerical simulations are carried out to substantiate the analytical results. 1. Introduction Predator-prey dynamics has long been and will continue to be of interest to both applied mathematicians and ecologists due to its universal existence and importance 1, 2. Many population models investigating the dynamic relationship between predators and their preys have be