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Hutchings, Michael R., Spiridoula Athanasiadou, Ilias Kyriazakis, and Iain J. Gordon. "Can animals use foraging behaviour to combat parasites?" Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 62, no. 2 (May 2003): 361–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/pns2003243.

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Host-parasite interactions are often seen as an arms race, with parasites attempting to overcome host resistance to infection. Herbivory is a common route of transmission of parasites that represents the most pervasive challenge to mammalian growth and reproduction. The present paper reviews the foraging skills of mammalian herbivores in relation to their ability to exploit plant properties to combat parasites. The starting point is that foraging behaviour may ameliorate the impact of parasitism in three ways; hosts could: (1) avoid foraging in areas contaminated with parasites; (2) select diets which increase their resistance to parasites; (3) select for foods containing anti-parasitic properties (self-medication). Details are given of the pre-requisite skills needed by herbivores if they are to combat parasitism via behaviour, i.e. herbivores are able to: (a) determine their parasitic state and alter their behaviour in relation to that state (behaviours 1, 2 and 3); (b) determine the environmental distribution of parasites (behaviour 1); (c) distinguish plant species or plant parts that increase their resistance to parasites (behaviour 2) or have anti-parasitic properties (behaviour 3). Mammalian herbivores cannot detect the presence of the parasites themselves and must rely on cues such as faeces. Despite the use of these cues contacting parasites may be inevitable and so mechanisms to combat parasitism are necessary. Mammalian herbivores have the foraging skills needed to exploit the heterogeneous distributions of nutrients and parasites in complex foraging environments in order to avoid, and increase their resistance to, parasites. Current evidence for the use of plant secondary metabolites (PSM) by herbivores for self-medication purposes remains equivocal. PSM have both positive (anti-parasitic) and negative (toxic) effects on herbivores. Here details are given of an experimental approach using tri-trophic (plant-herbivore-parasite) interactions that could be used to demonstrate self-medication in animals. There is strong evidence suggesting that herbivore hosts have developed the foraging skills needed to take advantage of plant properties to combat parasites and thus use behaviour as a weapon in the host-parasite arms race.
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Reynolds, A. M. "On the intermittent behaviour of foraging animals." Europhysics Letters (EPL) 75, no. 4 (August 2006): 517–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10157-x.

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Lihoreau, Mathieu, Michael A. Charleston, Alistair M. Senior, Fiona J. Clissold, David Raubenheimer, Stephen J. Simpson, and Jerome Buhl. "Collective foraging in spatially complex nutritional environments." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372, no. 1727 (July 3, 2017): 20160238. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0238.

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Nutrition impinges on virtually all aspects of an animal's life, including social interactions. Recent advances in nutritional ecology show how social animals often trade-off individual nutrition and group cohesion when foraging in simplified experimental environments. Here, we explore how the spatial structure of the nutritional landscape influences these complex collective foraging dynamics in ecologically realistic environments. We introduce an individual-based model integrating key concepts of nutritional geometry, collective animal behaviour and spatial ecology to study the nutritional behaviour of animal groups in large heterogeneous environments containing foods with different abundance, patchiness and nutritional composition. Simulations show that the spatial distribution of foods constrains the ability of individuals to balance their nutrient intake, the lowest performance being attained in environments with small isolated patches of nutritionally complementary foods. Social interactions improve individual regulatory performances when food is scarce and clumpy, but not when it is abundant and scattered, suggesting that collective foraging is favoured in some environments only. These social effects are further amplified if foragers adopt flexible search strategies based on their individual nutritional state. Our model provides a conceptual and predictive framework for developing new empirically testable hypotheses in the emerging field of social nutrition. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Physiological determinants of social behaviour in animals’.
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Lian, Xinming, Tongzuo Zhang, Yifan Cao, Jianping Su, and Simon Thirgood. "Road proximity and traffic flow perceived as potential predation risks: evidence from the Tibetan antelope in the Kekexili National Nature Reserve, China." Wildlife Research 38, no. 2 (2011): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr10158.

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Context The risk-disturbance hypothesis predicts that animals exhibit risk-avoidance behaviours when exposed to human disturbance because they perceive the disturbance as a predatory threat. Aims This study aimed to examine whether Tibetan antelopes (Pantholops hodgsoni) exhibit risk-avoidance behaviour with proximity to a major highway and with increasing traffic flow consistent with the risk-disturbance hypothesis. Methods Focal-animal sampling was used to observe the behaviour of Tibetan antelopes. The behaviours were categorised as foraging, vigilance, resting, moving, or other. The time, frequency, and duration of foraging and vigilance were calculated. Key results As distance from the road increased, time spent foraging and foraging duration increased while foraging frequency, time spent being vigilant and vigilance frequency decreased, indicating that there is a risk perception associated with roads. Tibetan antelopes presented more risk-avoidance behaviours during high-traffic periods compared with low-traffic periods. Conclusions Tibetan antelopes exhibited risk-avoidance behaviour towards roads that varied with proximity and traffic levels, which is consistent with the risk-disturbance hypothesis. Implications The consequences of risk-avoidance behaviour should be reflected in wildlife management by considering human disturbance and road design.
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Freeman, Robin, Ben Dean, Holly Kirk, Kerry Leonard, Richard A. Phillips, Chris M. Perrins, and Tim Guilford. "Predictive ethoinformatics reveals the complex migratory behaviour of a pelagic seabird, the Manx Shearwater." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 10, no. 84 (July 6, 2013): 20130279. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0279.

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Understanding the behaviour of animals in the wild is fundamental to conservation efforts. Advances in bio-logging technologies have offered insights into the behaviour of animals during foraging, migration and social interaction. However, broader application of these systems has been limited by device mass, cost and longevity. Here, we use information from multiple logger types to predict individual behaviour in a highly pelagic, migratory seabird, the Manx Shearwater ( Puffinus puffinus ). Using behavioural states resolved from GPS tracking of foraging during the breeding season, we demonstrate that individual behaviours can be accurately predicted during multi-year migrations from low cost, lightweight, salt-water immersion devices. This reveals a complex pattern of migratory stopovers: some involving high proportions of foraging, and others of rest behaviour. We use this technique to examine three consecutive years of global migrations, revealing the prominence of foraging behaviour during migration and the importance of highly productive waters during migratory stopover.
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Avery, R. A., and D. H. Bond. "Environmental constraints on lizard foraging behaviour." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 18, no. 3-4 (October 1987): 384–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591(87)90235-8.

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Houston, Alasdair I. "Evolutionary models of metabolism, behaviour and personality." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365, no. 1560 (December 27, 2010): 3969–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0161.

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I explore the relationship between metabolism and personality by establishing how selection acts on metabolic rate and risk-taking in the context of a trade-off between energy and predation. Using a simple time budget model, I show that a high resting metabolic rate is not necessarily associated with a high daily energy expenditure. The metabolic rate that minimizes the time spent foraging does not maximize the net gain rate while foraging, and it is not always advantageous for animals to have a higher metabolic rate when food availability is high. A model based on minimizing the ratio of mortality rate to net gain rate is used to determine how a willingness to take risks should be correlated with metabolic rate. My results establish that it is not always advantageous for animals to take greater risks when metabolic rate is high. When foraging intensity and metabolic rate coevolve, I show that in a particular case different combinations of foraging intensity and metabolic rate can have equal fitness.
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Lazo, Alfonso, and Ramón C. Soriguer. "Size-biased foraging behaviour in feral cattle." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 36, no. 2-3 (April 1993): 99–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591(93)90002-7.

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Rosen, David A. S., Arliss J. Winship, and Lisa A. Hoopes. "Thermal and digestive constraints to foraging behaviour in marine mammals." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 362, no. 1487 (May 2007): 2151–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.2108.

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While foraging models of terrestrial mammals are concerned primarily with optimizing time/energy budgets, models of foraging behaviour in marine mammals have been primarily concerned with physiological constraints. This has historically centred on calculations of aerobic dive limits. However, other physiological limits are key to forming foraging behaviour, including digestive limitations to food intake and thermoregulation. The ability of an animal to consume sufficient prey to meet its energy requirements is partly determined by its ability to acquire prey (limited by available foraging time, diving capabilities and thermoregulatory costs) and process that prey (limited by maximum digestion capacity and the time devoted to digestion). Failure to consume sufficient prey will have feedback effects on foraging, thermoregulation and digestive capacity through several interacting avenues. Energy deficits will be met through catabolism of tissues, principally the hypodermal lipid layer. Depletion of this blubber layer can affect both buoyancy and gait, increasing the costs and decreasing the efficiency of subsequent foraging attempts. Depletion of the insulative blubber layer may also increase thermoregulatory costs, which will decrease the foraging abilities through higher metabolic overheads. Thus, an energy deficit may lead to a downward spiral of increased tissue catabolism to pay for increased energy costs. Conversely, the heat generated through digestion and foraging activity may help to offset thermoregulatory costs. Finally, the circulatory demands of diving, thermoregulation and digestion may be mutually incompatible. This may force animals to alter time budgets to balance these exclusive demands. Analysis of these interacting processes will lead to a greater understanding of the physiological constraints within which the foraging behaviour must operate.
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Kölzsch, Andrea, Adriana Alzate, Frederic Bartumeus, Monique de Jager, Ellen J. Weerman, Geerten M. Hengeveld, Marc Naguib, Bart A. Nolet, and Johan van de Koppel. "Experimental evidence for inherent Lévy search behaviour in foraging animals." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, no. 1807 (May 22, 2015): 20150424. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0424.

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Recently, Lévy walks have been put forward as a new paradigm for animal search and many cases have been made for its presence in nature. However, it remains debated whether Lévy walks are an inherent behavioural strategy or emerge from the animal reacting to its habitat. Here, we demonstrate signatures of Lévy behaviour in the search movement of mud snails ( Hydrobia ulvae ) based on a novel, direct assessment of movement properties in an experimental set-up using different food distributions. Our experimental data uncovered clusters of small movement steps alternating with long moves independent of food encounter and landscape complexity. Moreover, size distributions of these clusters followed truncated power laws. These two findings are characteristic signatures of mechanisms underlying inherent Lévy-like movement. Thus, our study provides clear experimental evidence that such multi-scale movement is an inherent behaviour rather than resulting from the animal interacting with its environment.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Foraging behaviour of animals"

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Al-Shami, Salah Abdulaziz. "Observations on the foraging behaviour of sheep using a high-level feeder technique." Thesis, Bangor University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310871.

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Possingham, Hugh Philip. "A model of resource renewal and depletion." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253379.

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Freidin, Esteban. "Rationality, foraging, and associative learning : an integraltive approach." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:76c2b5f0-aa69-4cb7-9bfb-21b14dd510d2.

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One basic requisite for rationality is that choices are consistent across situations. Animals commonly violate rationality premises as evidenced, for example, by context-dependent choices, and such apparent irrationalities stand as paradoxes that instigate re-examination of some assumptions in behaviour ecological modelling. The goal of the present thesis was to study the psychological mechanisms underlying apparent irrationalities in order to assess the functional implications of general processes of valuation and choice. A common thread through the different studies is the hypothesis that most animal 'irrationalities' are due to misinterpretation of what the optimum would be in natural circumstances, and hence of the maximised currency in the theoretical predictions. I believe that the trait that may have been of paramount influence in many organisms' selective history was the ability to learn about the predictability of events and their biological value, and that this is implemented in an overriding force of associative learning mechanisms. In chapters 2 and 3, I present evidence of context-dependent foraging choices in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, in the laboratory, and I implement a version of the Rescorla- Wagner learning model to account for both present data and apparent irrationalities reported by other authors. In chapter 4, I test the notion that context dependence may in fact be adaptive when animals face sequential choices, namely when they have to decide whether to take a prey item or to skip it in order to search for better alternatives. In chapter 5, I explore the functional implications of starlings' relative responding to incentives during an unexpected shortfall in reinforcement, and I also examine the extent to which information about the new environmental status helps them avoid energetic and time costs commonly seen in uninformed individuals. Last, in chapter 6, I present a brief summary of the main discussions considered and conclusions reached along this thesis.
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Troisi, Camille A. "An investigation of teaching behaviour in primates and birds." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12008.

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Many animals socially learn, but very few do so through teaching, where an individual modifies its behaviour in order to facilitate learning for another individual. Teaching behaviour is costly, but can confer numerous advantages, such as high fidelity transmission of information or an increase in the rate of social learning. In many putative cases of teaching, it is not known whether the pupil learns from the modified behaviour. This thesis addresses this issue in three cases of potential teaching behaviour. In particular, it investigates whether the role of food transfers in wild golden lion tamarins is to teach which foods are good to eat (Chapter 5). There was little evidence that novel foods were transferred more than familiar foods, and this was not due to the juveniles attempting to obtain novel foods more than familiar ones, or by adults discarding novel foods more than familiar ones. Transfers were however more successful when donors had previously ingested the food type transferred. Successful food transfers also had a positive correlation with foraging choices once juveniles were older, suggesting they learned from food transfers. In golden lion tamarins, this thesis also examined whether juveniles learned from food-offering calls which substrates were good to forage on (Chapter 6). Juveniles that experienced playback of food-offering calls ate more on a novel substrate, than juveniles that did not experience those playbacks, both immediately as the calls were being played, and in the long term, six months after the playbacks. This suggests that juveniles learned from the playbacks. Finally, this thesis attempted to replicate previous findings showing that hens modify their behaviour when chicks feed from seemingly unpalatable food, and explored whether chicks learned what food to eat based on the maternal display (Chapter 7). The experiment failed to find evidence for teaching behaviour, but results were not inconsistent with previous findings. Moreover, there was little evidence that chicks learned from their mother, quite to the contrary, hens seemed to acquire their foraging decisions based on their chicks' choices.
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Dolins, Francine Leigh. "Spatial relational learning and foraging in cotton-top tamarins." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3466.

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Spatial relationalleaming can be defined as the use of the spatial (geometric) relationship between two or more cues (landmarks) in order to locate additional points in space (O'Keefe and Nadel, 1979). An internal spatial representation enables an animal to compute novel locations and travel routes from familiar landmarks and routes (Dyer, 1993). A spatial representation is an internal construct mediating between perceived stimuli in the environment and the behaviour of the animal (Tolman, 1948). In this type of spatial representation the information encoded must be isomorphic with the physical environment such that the geometric relations of distance, angle and direction are maintained or can be computed from the stored information (Gallistel, 1990). A series of spatial and foraging task experiments were conducted to investigate the utilisation of spatial relational learning as a spatial strategy available to cotton-top tamarins (Sag uinus oedipus oedipus). The apparatus used was an 8x8 matrix of holes set in an upright wooden board to allow for the manipulation of visual cues and hidden food items such that the spatial configuration of cues and food could be transformed (translated or rotated) with respect to the perimeter of the board. The definitive test of spatial relational learning was whether the monkeys relied upon the spatial relationship between the visual cues to locate the position of the hidden food items. In a control experiment testing for differential use of perceptual information the results showed that if given the choice, tamarins relied on visual over olfactory cues in a foraging task. Callitrichids typically depend on olfactory communication in socio-sexual contexts so it was unusual that olfaction did not also play a significant role in foraging. In the first spatial learning experiment, the tamarins were found to rely on the three visually presented cues to locate the eleven hidden food items. However, their performance was not very accurate. In the next experiment the task was simplified so that the types of spatial strategies the monkeys were using to solve the foraging task could be clearly identified. In this experiment, only two visual cues were presented on either end of a line of four hidden food items. Once the monkeys were trained to these cues, the cues and food were translated and/or rotated on the board. Data from the beginning and middle of each testing session were used in the final analysis: in a previous analysis it was found that the monkeys initially searched the baited holes in the beginning of a testing session and thereafter predominantly searched unbaited holes. This suggests that they followed a win-stay/lose-shift foraging strategy, a finding that is supported by other studies of tamarins in captivity (Menzel and Juno, 1982) and the wild (Garber, 1989). The results also showed that the monkeys were searching predominately between the cues and not outside or around of them, indicating that they were locating the hidden food by using the spatial relationship between the visual cues. This provides evidence for the utilisation of spatial relational learning as a foraging strategy by cotton-top tamarins and the existence of complex internal spatial representations. Further studies are suggested to test captive monkeys' spatial relational capabilities and their foraging strategies. In addition, comparative and field studies are outlined that would provide information regarding New World monkeys' spatial learning abilities, neurophysiological organisation and the evolution of complex computational processes.
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Wright, Emma. "The effect of pathogens on honeybee learning and foraging behaviour." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57266/.

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The European honeybee, Apis mellifera, is important economically not just for honey production but also as a pollinator. Bee pollinated plants contribute towards one third of the food eaten worldwide. However, honeybee numbers in some areas are declining. A range of interacting factors are thought to be involved, including pathogens and parasites, loss of forage, pesticide use, bad weather, and limited genetic variability. Pathogens are also known to cause changes in the behaviour of their hosts and these premortality and sublethal effects of disease may well play a role in colony declines and are the focus of this thesis. For individual bees the fungus Metarhizium anisopliae was used as a model pathogen and RT-Q-PCR was used to detect and quantify naturally occurring pathogens. In field colonies the level of infestation of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor was modified as a surrogate for disease load as the amounts of many viruses correlate with mite levels. Survival experiments showed that both disease load and forage availability had an effect on honeybee longevity and feeding the bees pollen increased their survival. Learning experiments showed that both the fungus and some of the bees’ naturally occurring pathogens caused changes in the learning ability of young adult and older forager bees. Young adult bees were better able to learn when infected with the fungus, possibly because it made them more responsive to the sucrose stimulus, whilst older forager bees where less able to learn when infected with the fungus. Harmonic radar was used to show that honeybee flight ability was affected by naturally occurring pathogens, especially deformed wing virus which caused bees to fly shorter distances and for shorter amounts of time than uninfected bees. Observation hives were used to study in-hive behaviour showing that bees with more pathogens were likely to start foraging earlier than healthier bees.
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Chalk, Daniel. "Artificially intelligent foraging." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/96455.

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Bumble bees (bombus spp.) are significant pollinators of many plants, and are particularly attracted to mass-flowering crops such as Oilseed Rape (Brassica Napus), which they cross-pollinate. B. napus is both wind and insect-pollinated, and whilst it has been found that wind is its most significant pollen vector, the influence of bumble bee pollination could be non-trivial when bee densities are large. Therefore, the assessment of pollinator-mediated cross-pollination events could be important when considering containment strategies of genetically modified (GM) crops, such as GM varieties of B. napus, but requires a landscape-scale understanding of pollinator movements, which is currently unknown for bumble bees. I developed an in silico model, entitled HARVEST, which simulates the foraging and consequential inter-patch movements of bumble bees. The model is based on principles from Reinforcement Learning and Individual Based Modelling, and uses a Linear Operator Learning Rule to guide agent learning. The model incoproates one or more agents, or bees, that learn by ‘trial-and-error’, with a gradual preference shown for patch choice actions that provide increased rewards. To validate the model, I verified its ability to replicate certain iconic patterns of bee-mediated gene flow, and assessed its accuracy in predicting the flower visits and inter-patch movement frequencies of real bees in a small-scale system. The model successfully replicated the iconic patterns, but failed to accurately predict outputs from the real system. It did, however, qualitatively replicate the high levels of inter-patch traffic found in the real small-scale system, and its quantitative discrepancies could likely be explained by inaccurate parameterisations. I also found that HARVEST bees are extremely efficient foragers, which agrees with evidence of powerful learning capabilities and risk-aversion in real bumble bees. When applying the model to the landscape-scale, HARVEST predicts that overall levels of bee-mediated gene flow are extremely low. Nonetheless, I identified an effective containment strategy in which a ‘shield’ comprised of sacrificed crops is placed between GM and conventional crop populations. This strategy could be useful for scenarios in which the tolerance for GM seed set is exceptionally low.
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Prescott, Mark John. "Social learning in mixed-species troops of Saguinus fuscicollis and Saguinus labiatus : tests of foraging benefit hypotheses in captivity." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/12554.

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The selective costs and benefits affecting the evolution of group living have long interested behavioural ecologists because knowledge of these selective forces can enhance our understanding not only of why organisms live in groups, but also why species exhibit particular patterns of social organisation. Tamarins form stable and permanent mixed-species troops providing an excellent model for examining the costs and benefits hypothesised for group living. However, testing hypotheses in the wild is difficult, not least because participating species are rarely found out of association. In contrast, in captivity it is possible to compare matched single- and mixed-species troops and also to study the same individuals in single and mixed-species troops to see what effect the presence of a congener has on behaviour. In this way, captive work can help us confirm, reject, or refine the hypotheses, and aids in the generation of new ones, for relating back to the wild. The utility of this approach is demonstrated in this thesis which explored some of the foraging benefit hypotheses and, in particular, the underlying notion that individuals in tamarind mixed-species troops can increase their foraging efficiency through social earning. Single and mixed-species troops of Saguinus fuscicollis and S. labiatus were studied at Belfast Zoological Gardens. It was found that social interaction with conspecifics and congeners facilitated learning by individuals of various types of food-related information (food palatability, location, and method of access). However, although social learning operated in mixed-species troops, it did so under the shadow of inter-specific dominance. The results were used, in conjunction with field observations in Bolivia, to make inferences about the adaptive function of social learning in the wild. These findings strengthen the hypotheses which suggest that increased opportunity for social learning, through an increase in troop size and as a result of species divergence in behaviour, is an adaptive advantage of mixed-species troop formation in tamarins.
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Mincey, Henry Dewayne. "Foraging behavior and success of herons and egrets in natural and artifical wetlands." Click here to access thesis, 2006. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/fall2006/henry_d_mincey/mincey_henry_d_200608_ms.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia Southern University, 2006.
"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science" ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-38)
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Gust, Deborah Anne. "An investigation of the role of uncertainty in the choice component of foraging in a captive group of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29359.

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Books on the topic "Foraging behaviour of animals"

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Miller, Lynne E. Eat or be eaten: Predator sensitive foraging among primates. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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R, Krebs J., ed. Foraging theory. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1986.

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van, Langevelde Frank, ed. Resource Ecology: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Foraging. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008.

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Redhead, Edward. Foraging behaviour in rats: Experimental investigation in the laboratory. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1989.

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Tinbergen, N. Social Behaviour in Animals. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7686-6.

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Foraging for survival: Yearling baboons in Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

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Cattle behaviour. Ipswich, U.K: Farming Press Books, 1993.

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Viswanathan, Gandhimohan M. The physics of foraging: An introduction to random searches and biological encounters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Holmes, Martha. Life: Extraordinary animals, extreme behaviour. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

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1957-, Gunton Mike, ed. Life: Extraordinary animals, extreme behaviour. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Foraging behaviour of animals"

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Vander Wall, Stephen B., and Kimberly G. Smith. "Cache-Protecting Behavior of Food-Hoarding Animals." In Foraging Behavior, 611–44. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1839-2_22.

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Ward, Ashley, and Mike Webster. "Social Foraging and Predator-Prey Interactions." In Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals, 55–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28585-6_4.

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Dryden, Gordon McL. "Grazing behaviour - diet selection and pasture intake." In Fundamentals of applied animal nutrition, 169–83. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781786394453.0014.

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Neuweiler, G., and M. B. Fenton. "Behaviour and Foraging Ecology of Echolocating Bats." In Animal Sonar, 535–49. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7493-0_55.

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Di Chio, Cecilia, Riccardo Poli, and Paolo Di Chio. "Extending the Particle Swarm Algorithm to Model Animal Foraging Behaviour." In Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, 514–15. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11839088_58.

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Hodgson, J., D. A. Clark, and R. J. Mitchell. "Foraging Behavior in Grazing Animals and Its Impact on Plant Communities." In Forage Quality, Evaluation, and Utilization, 796–827. Madison, WI, USA: American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/1994.foragequality.c19.

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Focardi, Stefano, and Silvano Toso. "Foraging and Social Behaviour of Ungulates: Proposals for a Mathematical Model." In Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man, 295–304. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3531-0_24.

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Fellowes, Mark D. E., Jacques J. M. van Alphen, and Mark A. Jervis. "Foraging Behaviour." In Insects As Natural Enemies, 1–71. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2625-6_1.

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van Alphen, J. J. M., and M. A. Jervis. "Foraging Behaviour." In Insect Natural Enemies, 1–62. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0013-7_1.

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Ritvo, Sarah. "Optimal Foraging Theory." In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, 1–6. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_632-1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Foraging behaviour of animals"

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Lehman, John T. "Optimal Foraging Theory: Lessons and Application to Adaptive Engineering Systems." In ASME 2008 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/dscc2008-2400.

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In biological systems, optimal strategy is generally defined as optimizing fitness, measured as reproductive value (RV), the expectation of producing surviving offspring from time t onward, given that an organism is in state S(t). Any action can be associated with an expectation of immediate reproductive success. Maximum RV results from the action that maximizes the sum of immediate and future surviving offspring. Adaptive biological behavior is the product of historical experience, heritability, individual variation, and differential fitness among individuals. Foraging tasks are a standard test bed for robot research because of their applicability to many problems. Optimal foraging theory offers explanations and predictions with direct applicability to engineering problems. Much theory development involves optimal solutions based on complete information about the system, but animals do not always conform to predictions of such models. Adaptive approximations to optimality in biological systems offer models for design of engineered systems.
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Lewis, Kemper, and Farrokh Mistree. "Foraging-Directed Adaptive Linear Programming: An Algorithm for Solving Nonlinear Mixed Discrete/Continuous Design Problems." In ASME 1996 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/96-detc/dac-1601.

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Abstract Design models often contain a combination of discrete, integer, and continuous variables. Previously, the Adaptive Linear Programming (ALP) Algorithm, which is based on sequential linearization, has been used to solve design models composed of continuous and Boolean variables. In this paper, we extend the ALP Algorithm using a discrete heuristic based on the analogy of an animal foraging for food. This algorithm for mixed discrete/continuous design problems integrates ALP and the foraging search and is called Foraging-directed Adaptive Linear Programming (FALP). Two design studies are presented to illustrate the effectiveness and behavior of the algorithm.
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Azmilumur, N. F., M. N. Sobri, and W. A. F. W. Othman. "Meerkat foraging behaviour modelling." In 2017 7th IEEE International Conference on Control System, Computing and Engineering (ICCSCE). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccsce.2017.8284410.

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Bergès, Benoit Jean Pierre, Steve Geelhoed, Meike Scheidat, and Jakob Tougaard. "Quantifying harbour porpoise foraging behaviour in CPOD data." In 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. ASA, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/2.0001214.

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Bradley, Aidan J., Masoud Jahromi Shirazi, and Nicole Abaid. "Comparing Collective Foraging With Interactions Inspired by Pheromones and Sonar." In ASME 2019 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/dscc2019-9190.

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Abstract Communication inspired by animals is a timely topic of research in the modeling and control of multi-agent systems. Examples of such bio-inspired communication methods include pheromone trails used by ants to forage for food and echolocation used by bats to orient themselves and hunt. Source searching is one of many challenges in the field of swarm robotics that tackles an analogous problem to animals foraging for food. This paper seeks to compare two communication methods, inspired by sonar and pheromones, in the context of a multi-agent foraging problem. We explore which model is more effective at recruiting agents to forage from a found target. The results of this work begin to uncover the complicated relationship between sensing modality, collective tasks, and spontaneous cooperation in groups.
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Hansen, Mark, Melvyn Smith, Lyndon Smith, Ian Hales, and Duncan Forbes. "Non-intrusive automated measurement of dairy cow body condition using 3D video." In Machine Vision of Animals and their Behaviour Workshop 2015. British Machine Vision Association, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5244/c.29.mvab.1.

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Jørgensen, Anders, Eigil Mølvig Jensen, and Thomas B. Moeslund. "Detecting Gallbladders in Chicken Livers using Spectral Imaging." In Machine Vision of Animals and their Behaviour Workshop 2015. British Machine Vision Association, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5244/c.29.mvab.2.

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Atanbori, John, Wenting Duan, John Murray, Kofi Appiah, and Patrick Dickinson. "A Computer Vision Approach to Classification of Birds in Flight from Video Sequences." In Machine Vision of Animals and their Behaviour Workshop 2015. British Machine Vision Association, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5244/c.29.mvab.3.

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Solis-Lemus, Jose Alonso, Yushi Huang, Donald Wlodkowic, and Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro. "Microfluidic environment and tracking analysis for the observation of Artemia Franciscana." In Machine Vision of Animals and their Behaviour Workshop 2015. British Machine Vision Association, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5244/c.29.mvab.4.

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Anwar, Hafeez, Sebastian Zambanini, and Martin Kampel. "Invariant Image-Based Species Classification of Butterflies and Reef Fish." In Machine Vision of Animals and their Behaviour Workshop 2015. British Machine Vision Association, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5244/c.29.mvab.5.

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Reports on the topic "Foraging behaviour of animals"

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Berges, B. P. J., S. C. V. Geelhoed, M. Scheidat, and J. Tougaard. Quantifying harbour porpoise foraging behaviour in CPOD data: identification, automatic detection and potential application. IJmuiden: Wageningen Marine Research, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18174/475270.

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