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- Title
On the use of public information by social foragers to assess patch quality.
- Authors
Beauchamp, Guy
- Abstract
Discusses the use of public information by social foragers to assess patch quality. Hypothesis that foragers in groups use the sampling activity of companions to determine the quality of food patch; Individual foragers' behavior of estimating the number of food items remaining in a patch at each time step using either their own success or an aggregate value based on the success of all forages in the group.
- Subjects
FORAGE plants; ANIMAL feeding behavior; ANIMAL behavior; FORAGING behavior (Humans); SURVIVAL behavior (Humans)
- Publication
Oikos, 2004, Vol 107, Issue 1, p206
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Other
- DOI
10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13077.x