They may be foraging for a candy bowl, he said, or recovering a confiscated toy, hidden on the top shelf.
The surrounding, non-grassland landscape likely has a strong influence on the bee species collected at the grassland sites, as some bees may be foraging in the grasslands but nesting elsewhere.
At the plantation scale, we advocate stopping understory removal as soon as possible and maintaining old trees and hedgerows alongside or within plantations to provide suitable breeding habitats for bird species that may be foraging in the plantations.
Here, cleaner fish inspections on different parts of a thresher shark's body were patch specific, suggesting that the cleaners may be foraging selectively.
In the present study, the invaded webs had intercepted more prey than the uninvaded webs which indicates that the existing webs may be good foraging sites.
Detecting vibrations is useful when the animals are foraging and may add to or even replace vision, particularly in darkness.
Sporadic incidents occur between species when one or both are foraging; a kingfisher may pilfer a food item from a dipper (Cinclus), and a savanna kingfisher will occasionally fly down to seize a grasshopper flushed by a human.
It has been suggested that such intermittent behavior may be used by foraging animals [10], [11].
In addition, we measured amounts of VOCs emitted by damaged and undamaged trees to determine differences in the volatile profile that may be detected by foraging birds.
This is puzzling, but may be due to foraging animals selectively disturbing decomposing fruit (where seeds often already had started germinating, pers. obs)., and not single seeds.
