Optimal foraging by a large ungulate in an extreme environment: Wild mountain reindeer select snow‐free feeding habitats in winter [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Optimal foraging models predict that individual animals will optimize net energy gain by intensifying forage activity and/or reducing forage energy cost. Then, the free distribution model predicts an animal's distribution in a patchy landscape will match
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Neonicotinoids and Optimal Foraging Theory
Environmental Advances, 2022 Determination of how neonicotinoid ingestion affects the foraging behaviour of flower-visiting animals, and using Optimal Foraging Theory to assess the nature and extent of consequent changes to foraging efficiency, provide a novel approach for ...
Graham H. Pyke
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Experience-based optimal foraging on planktonic prey in Baikal seals [PDF]
Movement EcologyBackground Understanding how predatory animals efficiently locate prey with limited knowledge of its location is challenging. Optimal foraging theory suggests that animals improve their food intake through experience-based adjustments of search patterns.
Yuuki Y. Watanabe +2 more
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Game-theoretic methods for functional response and optimal foraging behavior. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 We develop a decision tree based game-theoretical approach for constructing functional responses in multi-prey/multi-patch environments and for finding the corresponding optimal foraging strategies.
Ross Cressman +3 more
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Optimal Foraging by Bacteriophages through Host Avoidance [PDF]
American Naturalist, 2008 Optimal foraging theory explains diet restriction as an adaptation to best utilize an array of foods differing in quality, the poorest items not worth the lost opportunity of finding better ones.
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Eating smart: Free-ranging dogs follow an optimal foraging strategy while scavenging in groups
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Foraging and acquiring of food is a delicate balance between managing the costs (both energy and social) and individual preferences. Previous research on solitarily foraging free-ranging dogs showed that they prioritise the nutritionally highest valued ...
Rohan Sarkar +18 more
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Combining radio-telemetry and radar measurements to test optimal foraging in an aerial insectivore bird [PDF]
eLifeOptimal foraging theory posits that foragers adjust their movements based on prey abundance to optimize food intake. While extensively studied in terrestrial and marine environments, aerial foraging has remained relatively unexplored due to technological
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A reward self-bias leads to more optimal foraging for ourselves than others [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPeople are self-biased for rewards. We place a higher value on rewards if we receive them than if other people do. However, existing work has ignored one of the most powerful theorems from behavioural ecology of how animals seek resources in everyday ...
Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta +6 more
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A Hypothetical Modelling and Experimental Design for Measuring Foraging Strategies of Animals
Journal of Intelligence, 2022 Based on animal long-term and short-term memory radial foraging techniques (or LMRFT and SMRFT), we devise a modelling approach that could capture the foraging behaviours of animals.
Ray-Ming Chen
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Energetic consequences of prey type in little penguins (Eudyptula minor)
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Investigation of foraging decisions can help understand how animals efficiently gather and exploit food. Prey chase and handling times are important aspects of foraging efficiency, influencing the net energy gain derived from a prey item.
Natalie Petrovski +2 more
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