While foraging, animals including humans and monkeys are continuously making decisions about where to search for food and when to move among possible sources of sustenance. "Foraging behavior is ...

A new animal-foraging model accurately predicts the dynamics of Egyptian fruit bats, allowing researchers to uncover a surprising phase transition in the penchant of animals to explore. Just as the ...

Ecologists have long sought clarity on the dietary habits of different animal species. For scientists, it wasn't obvious how herbivores in Yellowstone National Park, who subsist on grasses, ...

A positive-thinking bison, oryx or black bear has a better chance of a full belly and long-term health than a neutral-thinking or pessimistic one according to newly published research from Tal Avgar ...

Marine birds inhabit dynamic oceanic environments where rising temperatures, shifting currents and altered prey distributions challenge their survival and reproductive success. These species employ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ruby-throated hummingbird gathering nectar from a mandevilla flower.© Matt Cuda/Shutterstock.com The post Animals' Habits May Be ...

I've been studying various aspects of animal behavior, especially in mammals, for many decades and have always felt uneasy about how cultural values have limited our true understanding of the dynamics ...

A new model for animal foraging considered 'valence-dependent optimism bias' -- a lopsided learning process in which information about bad outcomes is discounted or ignored. The model shows that when ...

Valentin Dragoi professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, professor of neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College and scientific director of the Methodist/Rice Center for ...