Foraging : behavior and ecology / edited by David W. Stephens, Joel S. Brown, and Ronald C. Ydenberg.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-586) and index.

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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Foraging: An Overview; Part I: Foraging and Information Processing; 2 Models of Information Use; 3 Neuroethology of Foraging; 4 Cognition for Foraging; Part II: Processing, Herbivory, and Storage; 5 Food Acquisition, Processing, and Digestions; 6 Herbivory; 7 Energy Storage and Expenditure; Part III: Modern Foraging Theory; 8 Provisioning; 9 Foraging in the Face of Danger; 10 Foraging with Others: Games Social Foragers Play; Part IV: Foraging Ecology; 11 Foraging and Population Dynamics; 12 Community Ecology; 13 Foraging and the Ecology of Fear.

14 On Foraging Theory, Humans, and the Conservation of Diversity: A ProspectusContributors; Literature Cited; Index.

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 and rela.

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