Reply to Comment on "Inverse Square Lévy Walks are not Optimal Search Strategies for d \geq 2 "

Abstract

We refute here the concernes raised in the Comment of our letter. This reply states clearly the validity range of our results and shows that the optimality of inverse-square Levy walks at the basis of the Levy flight foraging hypothesis is generically unfounded. We also give the precise set of conditions for which inverse-levy square Levy walks turn to be optimal, conditions which are unlikely to be verified biologically.

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• Inverse square Lévy walks are not optimal search strategies for $d\ge 2$
• Comment on "Inverse Square Lévy Walks are not Optimal Search Strategies for d $\ge$ 2" [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 080601 (2020)]

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