Solution

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On each side of the stated parallelogram, substitution into the outward normal component of
shows that the leading terms point inward; the remaining terms are , so the region is positively invariant for sufficiently large .
There is one equilibrium,
Its Jacobian has determinant one and trace . If the equilibrium is unstable. A trajectory starting nearby remains in the compact trapping region, and its omega-limit set contains no stable equilibrium. The Poincare-Bendixson theorem therefore supplies a periodic orbit.

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