If you are wondering how long you personally are willing to stand in line to buy that hot new holiday gift, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say the answer may be found in the biological rules ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Optimal diets were determined for each of 109 individual Columbian ground squirrels (Spermophilus columbianus) at two sites in northwestern ...

Optimal foraging theory provides a framework to understand how organisms balance the benefits of harvesting resources within a patch with the sum of the metabolic, predation, and missed opportunity ...

New insight on how zebrafish achieve near-optimal foraging efficiency and fairness among groups has been published today. New insight on how zebrafish achieve near-optimal foraging efficiency and ...

Researchers reveal an optimal strategy for foragers -- animals searching for berries in the woods or prospectors seeking oil in the desert. The statistical model builds on previous foraging theories ...