NCSU Course ZO410 Lecture:
Foraging
Optimal foraging models - used to predict costs and benefits
that will ultimately maximize the individual's inclusive fitness
Include:
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Choices made in feeding, (most prefer small packages, and are specialists)
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Currency (energy intake-- calories gained)
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Constraints on animal (physical, nutritional, etc.)
Food Selection:
- crows: clams and whelks
- bats, monkeys, etc.
Finding Food:
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Fluctuations in food supply
- sampling: chipmunks and starlings
- risk-prone vs. risk-averse
- bumblebees
- quality of overall habitat and travel time between patches determine
length of time forage in an area
Constraints to Foraging:
- chickadees, etc.
- finches, etc.
Sociality/ Cooperative Hunting
- spiders, army ants
- mammalian carnivores
- primates (element of human social behavior?)
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