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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Photography and Exploration of Tourist Locations Based on Optimal Foraging Theory
IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology (Print), 2020 Animals search for food in their environment with a decision strategy which keeps them fit. Optimal foraging theory models this foraging behavior to determine the optimal decision strategy followed by animals.
Y. Rawat, M. Shah, Mohan Kankanhalli
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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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Children's competition in a natural setting: evidence for the ideal free distribution [PDF]
, 2011 Article in pressLittle is known of the foraging abilities of children in modern cultures, especially when children forage in groups. Here we present a test of optimal foraging theory in groups of street children working for money.
Disma, Gérald +2 more
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Optimal Forager Against Ideal Free Distributed Prey [PDF]
, 2015 The introduced dispersal-foraging game is a combination of prey habi2 tat selection among two patch types and optimal foraging approaches. Prey’s patch 3 preference and forager behavior determine the prey’s survival rate.
Cabello, Tomás +4 more
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