Animals evolved in complex environments, producing a wide range of behaviors, including
navigation, foraging, prey capture, and conspecific interactions, which vary over timescales …

Foraging is a natural behavior that involves making sequential decisions to maximize
rewards while minimizing the costs incurred when doing so. The prevalence of foraging …

Nearly all animals forage to acquire energy for survival through efficient search and
resource harvesting. Patch exploitation is a canonical foraging behaviour, but there is a …

Animals typically forage in groups. Social foraging can help animals avoid predation and
decrease their uncertainty about the richness of food resources. Despite this, theoretical …

Foraging is a common decision problem in natural environments. When new exploitable
sites are always available, a simple optimal strategy is to leave a current site when its return …

Until now, it has been difficult to examine the neural bases of foraging in naturalistic
environments because previous approaches have relied on restrained animals performing …

There is an ever-increasing understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying how we
process others' behaviours during social interactions. However, little is known about how …

Foraging for resources is a fundamental animal activity. Successful and efficient foraging will
ultimately lead to both indirect and direct selective advantages by providing animals with the …

Decision making often involves choosing actions based on relevant evidence. This can
benefit from focussing evidence evaluation on the timescale of greatest relevance based on …

Many organism behaviors are innate or instinctual and have been “hard-coded” through
evolution. Current approaches to understanding these behaviors model evolution as an …