Unrefereed research candidate. Individuals leave their location at rate d and resettle anywhere in the habitat with equal probability. Bai and Li (arXiv:2108.01826) proved that the total equilibrium population has a single peak in d when habitat quality varies by less than a factor of about 1.618, and asked whether several peaks are possible. This package answers yes. For every budget and every N there are smooth increasing resources, converging to a constant in every finite Lp, whose population curve has at least N strict local maxima: a tiny patch of very rich habitat adds a population bump at a dispersal rate comparable to its richness. An exact three-level example has a certified minimum at d = 3; two resource levels always give a single peak; and a three-level example with contrast about 14.17 is certified exactly and by two interval traps. Effect sizes: the peaks are real but tiny. In the 14.17 example the left maximum lies within 10-4 of d0, is about 10-32 high, and vanishes under tiny parameter changes. The result is qualitative. Priority caveat: Liang and Zhang (2021) and Bai, Li and Shi (2024) were read only as abstracts; the former's equal-patch model contains our rational examples. The archive contains the 16-page manuscript (PDF and LaTeX), exact standard-library certificates with receipts, numerical scripts with pinned dependencies, semantic negative controls, CI and SHA-256 sums. Assurance: written proofs; exact rational and interval certificates; internal AI-assisted review only (not peer review, independent reproduction or formal verification). Creator: Anonymous. Text and data CC0-1.0; code MIT.
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