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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.
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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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Does foraging success predict subsequent foraging behavior in Pygoscelis penguins?
, 2023 Oliver, Matthew J.In a patchy prey environment, optimal foraging theory predicts that central place foragers will discretize horizontal movement and vertical movements into directed and resident foraging behaviors and that high foraging success should ...
Voirol, Grant
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Insights for caribou/reindeer management using optimal foraging theory
Rangifer, 1991 Optimal foraging theory is useful to wildlife managers, because it helps explain the nutritional value of different habitats for wildlife species. Based upon nutritional value, the use of different habitats can be predicted, including how factors such as
Gary E. Belovsky
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Foraging under uniform risk from different types of predators [PDF]
, 2008 Liesenjohann T, Eccard JA. Foraging under uniform risk from different types of predators. BMC Ecology. 2008;8(1): 19.BACKGROUND: Many animals live in environments where different types of predators pose a permanent threat and call for predator specific ...
Eccard JA +6 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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Approximating optimal behavioural strategies down to rules-of-thumb: energy reserve changes in pairs of social foragers [PDF]
, 2011 Functional explanations of behaviour often propose optimal strategies for organisms to follow. These ‘best’ strategies could be difficult to perform given biological constraints such as neural architecture and physiological constraints.
Sean A. Rands +3 more
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Foraging strategies in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) : foraging effort and prey selection [PDF]
, 2009 Swimming speeds and prey selection of temporally captive, wild grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) were investigated in relation to prey characteristics in an experimental set-up at the Sea Mammal Research Unit (St Andrews, UK).
Gallon, Susan Louise
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Ethnobiology Letters, 2017 The use of optimal foraging theory in archaeology has been criticized for focusing heavily on “negative” human-environmental interactions, particularly anthropogenic resource depression, in which prey populations are reduced by foragers’ own foraging ...
Emily Lena Jones, David A. Hurley
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The foraging behaviour of hummingbirds through space and time [PDF]
, 2015 Central place foragers, such as territorial hummingbirds, feed from resources that tend to be constant in space and to replenish with time (e.g. nectar in flowers).
Tello Ramos, Maria Cristina
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