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When animals forage in groups, joining the food discoveries of others who are specialized on exploiting different food sources will broaden the range of food types each individual can consume [15], while it permits foragers to maintain their foraging specialization and thus a higher foraging efficiency than if they would have to become generalist foragers (the 'skill pool effect'; [16]).

It thus seems unlikely that male foraging technique should obscure an effect of foraging efficiency, if it were there.

We predict that social foraging occurs in both sexes of narrow-winged open aerial foraging bats that live in social groups year-round and feed on an ephemeral diet and/or have a sufficiently short foraging period to make an increase in foraging efficiency through information transfer useful.

Here we review how parasites can alter the foraging behaviour of bees by changing floral preferences and impairing foraging efficiency.

Although DIS birds foraged more efficiently than ADV birds on free food (mean DIS foraging efficiency > mean ADV foraging efficiency in three of four trials), the difference between treatments was not present for CFL (Fig. 4).

Reduced food discrimination may have important indirect costs if non-food items are toxic or harmful in other ways, and reduced foraging efficiency may increase predation risk if individuals have to increase overall foraging activity to compensate [44].

Fayet, A. L. et al. Lower foraging efficiency in immatures drives spatial segregation with breeding adults in a long-lived pelagic seabird.

Increases in the cost of swimming may have significant impacts on foraging efficiency.

Additionally, we investigated the effects of landscape heterogeneity on the foraging efficiency.

Such learning often involves visual cues as well as chemical cues and increases foraging efficiency, minimizing time spent on fruitless searching when suitable resources are abundant.

However, the relationship between locomotor economy and net intake is highly dependent on foraging efficiency; only species with low foraging efficiencies experience strong selection pressure for improved locomotor economy and increased limb length.