Authors:David W. Stephens, John R. Kre,
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: theory, foraging
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1987-03-01
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 0691084424
ISBN-13: 9780691084428

Author: Susan Allport
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: foraging, love, sex, food, feast, primal
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2003-04-03
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0595271316
ISBN-13: 9780595271313

Food makes the world go around, according to this absorbing account of how the search for food has shaped human nature. It is more important than love or sex for the simple reason that food is harder to find than a mate. Think of it this way, says Allport, who draws on the research of anthropologists and biologists in presenting her fascinating and provocative theories: Mates are often willing accomplices in the act of mating; food is never a willing accomplice in the act of eating.

Author: Lynne E. Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: among, primates, foraging, sensitive, predator, eaten
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2002-05-06
List price: $214.99
ISBN-10: 0521804515
ISBN-13: 9780521804516

This volume brings together primary data from a variety of primate species living in both natural habitats and experimental settings, and explores the variables that may play a role in primates’ behavioral strategies. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that predator sensitive foraging is relevant to many primates, of various body sizes and group sizes and living in different environments. Eat or be Eaten encourages further discussion and investigation of the subject and will make fascinating reading for researchers and students in primatology, ecology, and animal behavior.

Authors:Luc-Alain Giraldeau, Thomas Caraco,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: theory, foraging, social
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2000-05-15
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0691048770
ISBN-13: 9780691048772

Although there is extensive literature in the field of behavioral ecology that attempts to explain foraging of individuals, social foraging--the ways in which animals search and compete for food in groups--has been relatively neglected. This book redresses that situation by providing both a synthesis of the existing literature and a new theory of social foraging. Giraldeau and Caraco develop models informed by game theory that offer a new framework for analysis. Social Foraging Theory contains the most comprehensive theoretical approach to its subject, coupled with quantitative methods that wi

Authors:David W. Stephens, Joel S. Brown, Ronald C. Ydenberg
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: ecology, behavior, foraging
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0226772640
ISBN-13: 9780226772646

Foraging is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter of finding food; it is a biological imperative. Animals must find and consume resources to succeed, and they make extraordinary efforts to do so. For instance, pythons rarely eat, but when they do, their meals are large—as much as 60 percent larger than their own bodies. The snake’s digestive system is normally dormant, but during digestion metabolic rates can increase fortyfold. A python digesting quietly on the forest floor has the metabolic rate of thoroughbred in a dead heat. This an

Authors:Michael L. Commons, Alejandro Kacelnik, Sara J. Shet
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: behavior, analyses, quantitative, series, volume, foraging
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1987-02-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0898595509
ISBN-13: 9780898595505

The sixth volume in this respected series systematically presents and evaluates quantitative models of various foraging phenomena, including: steady state decision rules; acquisition of decision rules; perception and learning in foraging behavior.