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Prey‐driven behavioral habitat use in a low‐energy ambush predator
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Food acquisition is an important modulator of animal behavior and habitat selection that can affect fitness. Optimal foraging theory predicts that predators should select habitat patches to maximize their foraging success and net energy gain, likely ...
Annalee M. Tutterow +4 more
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Biased Learning as a Simple Adaptive Foraging Mechanism
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Adaptive cognitive biases, such as “optimism,” may have evolved as heuristic rules for computationally efficient decision-making, or as error-management tools when error payoff is asymmetrical.
Tal Avgar, Oded Berger-Tal
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Particle foraging strategies promote microbial diversity in marine environments
eLife, 2022 Microbial foraging in patchy environments, where resources are fragmented into particles or pockets embedded in a large matrix, plays a key role in natural environments. In the oceans and freshwater systems, particle-associated bacteria can interact with
Ali Ebrahimi +2 more
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Leaving safety to visit a feeding site: is it optimal to hesitate while exposed? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Animals living in complex environments experience differing risks of predation depending upon their location within the landscape. An animal could reduce the risk it experiences by remaining in a refuge site, but it may need to emerge from its refuge and
Sean A. Rands
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Inversion of pheromone preference optimizes foraging in C. elegans
eLife, 2021 Foraging animals have to locate food sources that are usually patchily distributed and subject to competition. Deciding when to leave a food patch is challenging and requires the animal to integrate information about food availability with cues signaling
Martina Dal Bello +3 more
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Physical Review E, 2018 We introduce the \emph{frugal foraging} model in which a forager performs a discrete-time random walk on a lattice, where each site initially contains $\mathcal{S}$ food units. The forager metabolizes one unit of food at each step and starves to death when it last ate $\mathcal{S}$ steps in the past. Whenever the forager decides to eat, it consumes all
Benichou, Olivier +5 more
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Optimal Foraging By Bacteriophages Through Host Avoidance [PDF]
, 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.
Bull, James J. +2 more
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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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Diversity, 2020 Although dispersal is critical to plant life history, the relationships between seed traits and dispersal success in animal-dispersed plants remain unclear due to complex interactions among the effects of seed traits, habitat structure, and disperser ...
Nathanael I. Lichti +2 more
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New Caledonian crows keep ‘valuable’ hooked tools safer than basic non-hooked tools
eLife, 2021 The temporary storage and re-use of tools can significantly enhance foraging efficiency. New Caledonian crows in one of our study populations use two types of stick tools – hooked and non-hooked – which differ in raw material, manufacture costs, and ...
Barbara C Klump +2 more
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