Foraging Behavior and Ecology

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 related foraging processes have broad applications in ecology, cognitive science, anthropology, and conservation biology-and they can be further extrapolated in economics, neurobiology, and computer science.

ISBN:	9780226772646
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Imprint:	The University of Chicago Press
Published date:	01 Sep 2007
DEWEY:	591.53
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	576
Weight:	948g
Height:	228mm
Width:	154mm
Spine width:	33mm

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