“…The functionals f and g are respectively the interaction functionals for the first and second predator populations with the prey population. In the literature, there are a few papers that deal with a generalization of an interaction functional in a three-species model; we refer, for instance, to [29,37,45,[49][50][51], which give an additional motivation to our research. Furthermore, it is been also applied in understanding some epidemiological interactions; we refer, for example, to [3,4,16,17,31,36,[46][47][48].…”