Evidence for encounter-conditional, area-restricted search in a preliminary study of Colombian blowgun hunters.

Active search for prey is energetically costly, so understanding how foragers optimize search has been central to foraging theory. Some theoretical work has suggested that foragers of randomly distributed prey should search using Lévy flights, while work on area-restricted and intermittent search st...

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Main Authors: Cody T Ross, Bruce Winterhalder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207633