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| finding, processing, and eating food |
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| Four Decisions For Foraging |
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Energetic value
How easy it is to carry
Its distance from cover
And how these variables interact
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| a mathematical expression that weighs the costs and benefits of each strategy |
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| measures the costs and benefits of some indicator of fitness |
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| (limitations) on foraging behavior can be identified |
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| a set of decisions or strategies available to animal Remember that models do not imply consciousness a la humans |
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| the amount of time it takes to process food |
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| Time it takes to find a prey item |
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| Equation for Profitability |
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| Equation for when you eat the current prey item |
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| Current Energy/Handling Time > Other Energy/(Search time + handling time) |
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| animal should make all or none shift between generalist and specialist |
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| refers to variability in food abundance |
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| some animals are gamblers and choose the variable site |
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| animals choose reliable sites where they are more or less guaranteed of finding at least a mediocre amount of food |
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Provides means of providing constant food source despite changing environment
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