Optimal foraging theory (OFT) is a behavioral ecology model that helps predict how an animal behaves when searching for food. Although obtaining food provides...

understand foraging; many of these models are a type of optimal model. Thus foraging theory is discussed in terms of optimizing a payoff from a foraging decision...

marginal value theorem (MVT) is an optimality model that usually describes the behavior of an optimally foraging individual in a system where resources...

Information foraging is a theory that applies the ideas from optimal foraging theory to understand how human users search for information. The theory...

uncontrolled excesses of the material economy." Optimal foraging theory (OFT) states that organisms forage in such a way as to maximize their energy intake...

strategy, but employ several strategies and eat a variety of plant parts. Optimal foraging theory is a model for predicting animal behavior while looking for...

sensory ability of the star-nosed mole. According to optimal foraging theory, organisms forage in such a way as to maximize their net energy intake per...

use of the optimality model is in optimal foraging theory. For example, the foraging behavior in starlings can be predicted using an optimality model, specifically...

negatively affected foraging efficiency under cryptic backgrounds. The foraging efficiency of individuals that had previously foraged with a competitor...

vigilance in social groups has been widely studied within the framework of optimal foraging theory and animal decision making. While animals under the risk of...

widely foraging. The sit-and-wait method is most suitable if the prey are dense and mobile, and the predator has low energy requirements. Wide foraging expends...

trails drew more foraging ants to retrieve seeds on the whole, and the foraging ants returned seeds at a higher rate per capita. This foraging pattern indicates...

and have led evolutionary ethologists to develop the idea of optimal foraging. Foraging involves expending energy and seeking food can be both time and...

sensing, allowing them to regulate nutrient intake. Optimal foraging theory is a model that explains foraging behavior as a cost–benefit analysis in which an...

costs. The concept was coined in the 1999 paper "The Ecology of Fear: Optimal Foraging, Game Theory, and Trophic Interactions", which argued that "a predator...

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cool the body down. Foraging during the night when it is cooler, and when there is less competition, supports the optimal foraging theory; maximize energy...

across scales to converge on optimal Lévy walks. Composite Brownian walks can be finely tuned to theoretically optimal Lévy walks but they are not as...

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conditions is not valid, the optimality result does not hold: inverse-square Levy walks are not optimal, and the gain of any optimal Levy walk over others is...

of such criticism is the argument that the mathematical models of optimal foraging theory do not offer insight that goes beyond the common-sense conclusions...

nectar may mean that linden trees can chemically deceive foraging bees to make sub-optimal foraging decisions, in some cases leading to their starvation....

(April 2003). "Mixotrophy of a photosynthetic flagellate viewed from an optimal foraging perspective". Protist. 154 (1): 91–8. doi:10.1078/143446103764928512...

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swimming in groups enhances foraging success. This ability was demonstrated by Pitcher and others in their study of foraging behaviour in shoaling cyprinids...

to foraging to obtain the required food intake. This impedes other activities, such as mating, and prolongs their exposure to predation as foraging occurs...

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Dade WB (1993). "Physical constraints on marine osmotrophy in an optimal foraging context". Marine Microbial Food Webs. 7 (2): 121–159. McMenamin M (1993)...