Foraging efficiency in temporally predictable environments: is a long-term temporal memory really advantageous?
Cognitive abilities enabling animals that feed on ephemeral but yearly renewable resources to infer when resources are available may have been favoured by natural selection, but the magnitude of the benefits brought by these abilities remains poorly known. Using computer simulations, we compared the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2021-09-01
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Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.210809 |