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Current Biology, 2022 Before visiting your local supermarket, do you write your food shopping list in the order you expect to encounter the items as you walk around, aisle by aisle? This way, you minimise your travel distance, saving time and effort. Many other animals do the same.
Andrew J, King, Harry H, Marshall
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Utilisation of intensive foraging zones by female Australian fur seals. [PDF]
, 2015 Within a heterogeneous environment, animals must efficiently locate and utilise foraging patches. One way animals can achieve this is by increasing residency times in areas where foraging success is highest (area-restricted search).
Arnould, John PY +3 more
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Neuroscience of foraging [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2014 The papers that accompany this Research Topic fall at the intersection of foraging theory and neuroscience. Why does such a topic merit a Research Topic in Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience? And what does foraging theory have to do with decision neuroscience?
Hayden, B, Walton, M
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The global geography of human subsistence [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 How humans obtain food has dramatically reshaped ecosystems and altered both the trajectory of human history and the characteristics of human societies.
Michael C. Gavin +11 more
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Sociobiology, 2016 Two substrates, sand and vermiculite, were tested in rearing laboratory experiments with Reticulitermes grassei at different culture periods (2, 4 and 6 weeks).
Patricia Gallardo +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2014 This paper presents preliminary data on the field activity of Reticulitermes grassei Clément in oak forests of the southern Iberian Peninsula. Recent research has provided information on the nature and intensity of termite damage to cork oaks (Quercus ...
Ana M Cardenas +3 more
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Shortening day length as a previously unrecognized selective pressure for early breeding in a bird with long parental care [PDF]
, 2014 Several different selective pressures have been suggested to explain an intense competition for early return to breeding grounds in birds. In this study we hypothesized that shortening day length during summer months may constitute additional ...
Janiszewski, Tomasz +5 more
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