Sentence examples for foraging animals from inspiring English sources

The observed increased intake rates of dominants could be a result of the higher detection rates in groups of foraging animals of the most profitable patches compared to an individual forager (Stahl et al. 2001).

The model presented here considers a very simple case with just two foragers, but activity synchronisation does seem to appear in the repertoire of socially foraging animals.

Foraging animals make trade-offs between food and predation risk.

And lively, foraging animals are much more attractive than bored couch potatoes.

It was cooking that provided our bodies with more energy than we'd previously obtained as foraging animals eating raw food.

The federal Bureau of Land Management wants that population to be around 27,000 to protect the herd, the range and other foraging animals.

This paper describes an individual-based model, MORPH, that has been designed to predict the effect of environmental change on foraging animal populations.

Hence, an optimally foraging animal should forage in a patch as long as its harvest rate exceeds the sum of its metabolic, predation, missed opportunities, and injury costs associated with foraging in that patch.

While we may expect hibernating animals in sub-optimal body condition to devote ample time to foraging, these animals are not in immediate danger of starvation.

For example, in foraging contexts animals often tend to maximise the amount of resources acquired with a minimum of energy expenditure [41], [42].

That worked inadequately in Zane even in years of reasonable rain and adequate supplies of forage: animals knock over the cages during the dry season to get at the young green leaves.