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Dynamic oceanography determines fine scale foraging behavior of Masked Boobies in the Gulf of Mexico.

PLoS ONE, 2017
During breeding, foraging marine birds are under biological, geographic, and temporal constraints. These contraints require foraging birds to efficiently process environmental cues derived from physical habitat features that occur at nested spatial ...
Caroline L Poli, Autumn-Lynn Harrison, Adriana Vallarino, Patrick D Gerard, Patrick G R Jodice   +4 more
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Foraging behavior in river lapwing, Vanellus duvaucelii (Lesson, 1826) (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae): Differences in technique, prey, and habitat

Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2021
A total of 415 individuals of river lapwing were counted in four habitats namely open, unvegetated river bank, vegetated river bank, river island and crop field, whereas foraging behavior was observed by focal observation.
Vikas Kumar, Himanshu Mishra, Ashish Kumar   +2 more
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Teasing apart the effects of seed size and energy content on rodent scatter-hoarding behavior. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Scatter-hoarding rodents are known to play a crucial role in the seed dispersal of many plant species. Numerous studies have indicated that both seed size and the energy content of seeds can affect rodent foraging behavior.
Bo Wang, Xiaolan Yang
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Intraspecific Variation among Social Insect Colonies: Persistent Regional and Colony-Level Differences in Fire Ant Foraging Behavior. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Individuals vary within a species in many ecologically important ways, but the causes and consequences of such variation are often poorly understood. Foraging behavior is among the most profitable and risky activities in which organisms engage and is ...
Alison A Bockoven, Shawn M Wilder, Micky D Eubanks   +2 more
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The Ratio of Sunflower Pollens Foraged by Apis mellifera Is More Than That of Apis cerana Does During Sunflower Blooming

Sociobiology, 2020
Bias foraging of pollen is general in different pollinators since various nutrition demanding, co-evolution and interaction of insect-plant. To clarify the preference of pollen foraging during sunflower blooming, the pollen foraging behaviors of Apis ...
Huipeng Yang, Jia Sun, Peng Tang, Changsheng Ma, Shudong Luo, Jie Wu   +5 more
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The Influence of abiotic factors on the foraging activity of Cephalotes borgmeieri (Kempf, 1951)

Sociobiology, 2023
The foraging activity can be defined as the search for food resources and is an activity of utmost importance for ant colony maintenance. Workers can be exposed to adverse environmental conditions during foraging, and because of it, some species can ...
Cândida Anitta Pereira Rodrigues, Jean Carlos dos Santos Lima, Rony Peterson Santos Almeida, Francieli Carlos de Oliveira, William Fernando Antonialli-Junior   +4 more
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Surfactant affects the tool use behavior of foraging ants

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022
Surfactants are commonly used in detergents, soaps and agrichemical products. After use, the residual surfactants can be dispersed into environmental compartments, directly or indirectly affecting aquatic and terrestrial organisms.
Aiming Zhou, Yuzhe Du, Jian Chen
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Caffeinated Forage Tricks Honeybees into Increasing Foraging and Recruitment Behaviors [PDF]

Current Biology, 2015
In pollination, plants provide food reward to pollinators who in turn enhance plant reproduction by transferring pollen, making the relationship largely cooperative; however, because the interests of plants and pollinators do not always align, there exists the potential for conflict, where it may benefit both to cheat the other [1, 2].
Couvillon MJ, Al Toufailia H, Butterfield TM, Schrell F, Ratnieks FLW, Schürch R   +5 more
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Convective rainfall drives behavioral shifts across multiple foraging scales in breeding seabirds

Movement Ecology
Background Rainfall can influence seabird foraging behavior through interactions with other climatic variables, such as wind speed and cloud cover, causing both immediate constraints on flight and foraging activity and longer-term changes via shifts in ...
Wataru Takeda, Shiho Koyama, Yusuke Goto, Ken Yoda   +3 more
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Contrafreeloading and foraging-related behavior in hens differing in laying performance and phylogenetic origin

Poultry Science, 2023
: Different breeds of domestic and junglefowl differ in foraging strategies indicating that domestication resulted in modified energy saving behavioral strategies.
A. Höhne, S. Petow, W. Bessei, L. Schrader   +3 more
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