... with the landscape before they begin foraging for food, enabling them to increase foraging gain 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...

... to a food source rather than the shortest. Optimal foraging Raiding behavior 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...

... 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 melas For breath-hold divers that feed at depth and replenish their oxygen stores at the surface...

... on patch quality and travel time shows that for Manx 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...

... indicate that future research may reveal this as a more common pattern than currently assumed in tropical animals, which may have implications in the context of the effect of even small temperature changes on tropical species. resting metabolic rate energy expenditure Molossus foraging strategy...