Scaling laws of ambush predator ‘waiting’ behaviour are tuned to a common ecology

The decisions animals make about how long to wait between activities can determine the success of diverse behaviours such as foraging, group formation or risk avoidance. Remarkably, for diverse animal species, including humans, spontaneous patterns of waiting times show random ‘burstiness’ that appe...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Biology letters (2005) 2014-05, Vol.281 (1782), p.20132997-20132997
Hauptverfasser:	Wearmouth, Victoria J., McHugh, Matthew J., Humphries, Nicolas E., Naegelen, Aurore, Ahmed, Mohammed Z., Southall, Emily J., Reynolds, Andrew M., Sims, David W.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Atlantic Ocean Cephalopoda Ecosystem Feeding Behavior Fishes Foraging Strategy Human Dynamics Intermittence Life Sciences Models, Biological Motor Activity Movement Ecology Predatory Behavior Probability Random Walk Search
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