Searching for wild food sources is known as foraging. Because it is essential to an animal's potential for survival and reproduction, it influences an animal's fitness. Foraging theory, a branch of behavioral ecology, studies how animals adapt how they forage in response to their living conditions.
To comprehend foraging, behavioral ecologists employ economic models and categories; many of these models are a sort of optimal model. Therefore, foraging theory is explained in terms of maximizing a foraging decision's payoff. The energy an animal consumes per unit of time, or more particularly, the highest ratio of energetic gain to cost when foraging, is the reward for many of these models.
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