Why Lévy Foraging does not need to be ‘unshackled’ from Optimal Foraging Theory [PDF]
Physics of Life Reviews, 2015 Humphries, NE
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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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The glass is half-full: overestimating the quality of a novel environment is advantageous. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 According to optimal foraging theory, foraging decisions are based on the forager's current estimate of the quality of its environment. However, in a novel environment, a forager does not possess information regarding the quality of the environment, and ...
Oded Berger-Tal, Tal Avgar
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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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BMC Ecology, 2020 Background Optimal foraging theory explains how animals make foraging decisions based on the availability, nutritional content, and handling times of different food types.
Kristen Petrov +5 more
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Learned valuation during forage decision-making in cuttlefish [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Decision-making, when humans and other animals choose between two options, is not always based on the absolute values of the options but can also depend on their relative values.
Tzu-Hsin Kuo, Chuan-Chin Chiao
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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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Optimal foraging predicts the ecology but not the evolution of host specialization in bacteriophages. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 We explore the ability of optimal foraging theory to explain the observation among marine bacteriophages that host range appears to be negatively correlated with host abundance in the local marine environment.
Sébastien Guyader, Christina L Burch
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Density-dependent, central-place foraging in a grazing herbivore: competition and tradeoffs in time allocation near water [PDF]
, 2015 Optimal foraging theory addresses one of the core challenges of ecology: predicting the distribution and abundance of species. Tests of hypotheses of optimal foraging, however, often focus on a single conceptual model rather than drawing upon the ...
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Optimal foraging and the information theory of gambling [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2018 At a macroscopic level, part of the ant colony life cycle is simple: a colony collects resources; these resources are converted into more ants, and these ants in turn collect more resources. Because more ants collect more resources, this is a multiplicative process, and the expected logarithm of the amount of resources determines how successful the ...
Baddeley, Roland J. +2 more
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