... with reduced effort. Foraging strategy Spatial learning and memory Social hymenoptera Evolution Behavioural ecology Minimising foraging effort without compromising foraging gain is a perpetual challenge for foraging animals. Learning and memorising features of foraging landscapes, especially...

... Social insect Foraging strategy Decision making Orientation Ants deploy a large variety of foraging strategies, ranging from solitary hunting to the recruitment of bigger groups via chemical communication Hölldobler and Wilson (1990) . Optimal-foraging theory tries to explain these foraging...

... metabolic rate indicated by high-speed transit to depth and negative buoyancy of long-finned pilot whales implies a costly diving strategy compared with that in other deep-diving toothed whales. Swimming kinematics Body condition Cetacean Deep-diving marine mammals Foraging strategy Globicephala...

... shearwaters combining chick feeding and self-maintenance, bimodal foraging trip durations optimise feeding rates. Foraging strategy Puffinus puffinus Bio-logging GPS Diving Resource allocation between parents and their offspring during reproduction is a central issue in life-history theory...

... explanations for this. One is that the combination of foraging strategy and morphology, which results in an energetically extremely expensive lifestyle, is compensated by lowering energy consumption during roosting. The other is that our results may not be as much of an exception as they seem. Molossus...

... of the energy expenditure of foraging penguins, e.g. using heart rates, will constitute a powerful tool for investigating the effects of environmental conditions on their foraging strategy. This technique will expand our ability to monitor many animals in the field. * e-mail: [email protected]...