In the particular situation of optimal foraging in a patchy habitat, animals may estimate the profitability of the patches they encounter to update their estimate of the profitability of the habitat as a whole, and adjust their foraging decisions accordingly.
In the context of optimal foraging in patchy environments, animals may estimate profitability of patches from different cues to update their estimate of the profitability of the whole habitat.
First, the distribution of each sponge intron appears to be extremely patchy among animals, which suggests numerous independent losses for each intron.
Our data reveal interesting patterns within the patchy distribution among animals, including the repeated invasion of some genomes by multiple Helitron families (figs. 2 and 3).
Instead, we used untested inferences, had patchy and contradictory animal data, relied on weak clinical analogies and were enticed by the phenotype association fallacy.
Although current data on influenza viruses in animals are patchy and far from satisfactory, the situation has improved over the last decade (see the graphs).
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent animals occupy patchy and ephemeral habitats supported by chemosynthetic primary production.
Pritchardia seed removal by animals is patchy in space and time; seed in some locations was removed in hours or days, whereas in others it persisted for 42 days or more.
This ancient gene family has a patchy distribution across the animal kingdom that is characterised by many independent losses and lineage-specific expansions.
The wiring diagram of a complete nervous system has long been available for a small roundworm, but neuronal connectivity data for larger animals has been patchy until now.
