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Behavior Systems Approach to Object Play: Stone Handling Repertoire as a Measure of Propensity for Complex Foraging and Percussive Tool Use in the Genus Macaca

Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2017
Stone handling (SH), has been identified in four closely related primate species of the Macaca genus. We provide the first ethogram of SH in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), a primate species known to use stones for extractive foraging.
Amanda N. Pelletier , Tatjana Kaufmann , Sidhesh Mohak , Riane Milan , Charmalie A. D. Nahallage , Michael A. Huffman , Noëlle Gunst , Aida Rompis , I Nengah Wandia , I Gusti Agung Arta Putra , Sergio M. Pellis , Jean-Baptiste Leca   +11 more
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Foraging in a dynamic environment: Response of four sympatric sub‐Antarctic albatross species to interannual environmental variability

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Seasonal and annual climate variations are linked to fluctuations in the abundance and distribution of resources, posing a significant challenge to animals that need to adjust their foraging behavior accordingly.
Tegan Carpenter‐Kling, Ryan R. Reisinger, Florian Orgeret, Maëlle Connan, Kim L. Stevens, Peter G. Ryan, Azwianewi Makhado, Pierre A. Pistorius   +7 more
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Dinner Date: Opposite-Sex Pairs of Fruit Bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) Forage More than Same-Sex Pairs

Biology
Social animals have unique foraging behaviors that consider not only the needs of the individual, but also the needs of the group. When social animals forage together, there is a greater sense of perceived safety, leading to less vigilance and more ...
Alexander Pergams, Mara Haus, Cristina Estrada, Joel Brown, Angeles Salles   +4 more
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Linking cognitive strategy, neural mechanism, and movement statistics in group foraging behaviors

Scientific Reports
Foraging for food is a rich and ubiquitous animal behavior that involves complex cognitive decisions, and interactions between different individuals and species.
Rafal Urbaniak, Marjorie Xie, Emily Mackevicius   +2 more
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Sexual castes of Trachymyrmex fuscus (Formicidae: Attini) performing worker tasks

Ciência Rural, 2015
:The main of this research was to report an atypical foraging behavior in a colony of Trachymyrmex fuscus, situated in "Cerrado" (savanna ecoregion of Goiás, Brazil). The colony foraging activity was performed only by sexual caste.
Márcio da Silva Araújo, João Paulo Ribeiro Oliveira, Danival José de Souza, Marco Antônio Oliveira, Flávio Gonçalves de Jesus   +4 more
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Research on re-searching: interrupted foraging is not disrupted foraging

Cognitive Research
In classic visual search, observers typically search for the presence of a target in a scene or display. In foraging tasks, there may be multiple targets in the same display (or “patch”).
Injae Hong, Jeremy M. Wolfe
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Complex Economic Behavior Patterns Are Constructed from Finite, Genetically Controlled Modules of Behavior

Cell Reports, 2019
Summary: Complex ethological behaviors could be constructed from finite modules that are reproducible functional units of behavior. Here, we test this idea for foraging and develop methods to dissect rich behavior patterns in mice.
Cornelia N. Stacher Hörndli, Eleanor Wong, Elliott Ferris, Kathleen Bennett, Susan Steinwand, Alexis Nikole Rhodes, P. Thomas Fletcher, Christopher Gregg   +7 more
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Use of Acceleration and Acoustics to Classify Behavior, Generate Time Budgets, and Evaluate Responses to Moonlight in Free-Ranging Snowshoe Hares

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Technological miniaturization is driving a biologging revolution that is producing detailed and sophisticated techniques of assessing individual behavioral responses to environmental conditions.
Emily K. Studd, Melanie R. Boudreau, Yasmine N. Majchrzak, Allyson K. Menzies, Michael J. L. Peers, Jacob L. Seguin, Sophia G. Lavergne, Rudy Boonstra, Dennis L. Murray, Stan Boutin, Murray M. Humphries   +10 more
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Downy woodpecker foraging behavior: foraging by expectation and energy intake rate [PDF]

Oecologia, 1983
I describe an artificial patch system that was used to study the foraging behavior of free-roaming downy woodpeckers (Picoides pubescens) in a woodlot in southeastern Michigan. The artificial "patches" used were thin logs into which were drilled small holes to hold food items (bits of sunflower seed kernels).
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Artificial Plant Root System Growth for Distributed Optimization: Models and Emergent Behaviors

Open Life Sciences, 2016
Plant root foraging exhibits complex behaviors analogous to those of animals, including the adaptability to continuous changes in soil environments. In this work, we adapt the optimality principles in the study of plant root foraging behavior to create ...
Su Weixing, Na Lin, Liu Fang, Liu Wei, Ashraf Muhammad Aqeel, Chen Hanning   +5 more
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