4 papers
Resource depletion accelerates rate learning but not composition learning in patch foraging
Zachary P. Kilpatrick, Ahmed El Hady
Foraging is a universal animal behavior that has increasingly attracted the interest of both experimentalists and theorists. Most prior models assume an animal knows the distributi…
Social hierarchy shapes foraging decisions
Lisa Blum Moyse, Ahmed El Hady
Social foraging is a widespread form of animal foraging in which groups of individuals coordinate their decisions to exploit resources in the environment. Animals show a variety of…
Social patch foraging theory in an egalitarian group
Lisa Blum Moyse, Ahmed El Hady
Foraging is a widespread behavior, and being part of a group may bring several benefits compared to solitary foraging, such as collective pooling of information and reducing enviro…
Long-term tracking of social structure in groups of rats
Mate Nagy, Jacob D. Davidson, Gabor Vasarhelyi +4
Rodents serve as an important model for examining both individual and collective behavior. Dominance within rodent social structures can determine access to critical resources, suc…