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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 animalRemember 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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