Patch foraging is a near-ubiquitous behaviour across the animal kingdom and characterises
many decision-making domains encountered by humans. We review how a disposition to …

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 …

Foraging theory prescribes when optimal foragers should leave the current option for more
rewarding alternatives. Actual foragers often exploit options longer than prescribed by the …

Patch foraging presents a sequential decision-making problem widely studied across
organisms—stay with a current option or leave it in search of a better alternative? Behavioral …

Effort-based decisions, in which people weigh potential future rewards against effort costs
required to achieve those rewards involve both cognitive and physical effort, though the …

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 …

Patch foraging is one of the most heavily studied behavioral optimization challenges in
biology. However, despite its importance to biological intelligence, this behavioral …

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

Foraging is crucial for animals to survive. Many species forage in groups, as individuals
communicate to share information about the location of available resources. For example …

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 …