On the begging you set parameters for simulation. In this moment you can add another maps, to watch how it change in time. You can run simulation free or for specified number of eras (rounds). You can click the animal, which will allow you to track it and watch it stats. In time stats of map change too. In any time you can stop simulation and start it again. At the end you can save stats from one of map and watch it in file stats.txt