Foraging

Optimal Foraging Strategies of Camponotus pennsylvanicus Hypothesis 1.) Ants prefer food sources of a higher quality rather than of a lower quality. 2.) Ants are sensitive to foraging gains and predation risks. Predictions 1.) Ants will prefer to forage for sugar water that is highly concentrated rather than water that is less concentrated. 2.) Ants will prefer to forage close to their home net site rather than farther away from their home nest site. 3.) Ants will balance the trade-off between the risk of predation and food quality. Ants will take greater risks for high quality food than they will for low quality food. Methods For the low quality food source, a 1% sugar solution was made by measuring 1 gram of sugar and mixing it with…

Human beings in the past hunted and gathered for subsistence. This culture, also known as the “foraging culture” included strategies like hunting, trapping, fishing, and gathering, in order to obtain supplies. These behaviours placed demands on the body that are similar to vigorous exercises and were practiced by all humans, until 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, “when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest Asia and in Mesoamerica”. Innovations such as agriculture and animal…

Firstly, again with residential base, which he states on his article is also the hub of subsistence activities, the area where food procurement parties or foragers, generally start and end the process, as well as being the place where most of the manufacturing, processing, maintenance activities originate. To reiterate, Binford’s theory is that among forager residential mobility may vary considerably with both duration and spacing between sites, as well as size of the group itself. Another point…

1) What is the most accurate description of the relative importance of hunting versus gathering in foraging societies in terms of nutrition? In terms of place in society? One of the most ancient forms of human subsistence patterns, is survival by means of hunting wild game and foraging for wild edibles. This subsistence pattern was used by even the earliest of humans up until the domestication of plants and animal, and the development of agriculture with the ability to maintain a surplus of…

These people depend on hunting and gathering or foraging as their main subsistence system. They use this specific subsistence system, foraging, because they gather and forage for food. On the other hand, foraging is a cultural adaption that not only responds to one problem in subsistence, but all three. To start, the people of Ju/’Hoansi uses sedentism, the act of a group of people staying in a given area for a while. For example, “Richard Lee, an ethnographer who has studied the group…

source. In short, the experiment successfully rejected the null hypothesis. There was a significant disparity between the foraging of peanuts vs sunflower seeds. The t-test test was able to provide a p-value that was statically significant. This shows that peanuts were the more eaten food source by squirrels in the area we tested. In the first three trials, squirrels continued foraging well past the elapsed time of the trial. This suggests that the squirrels didn’t reach the point of “giving up”…

this study was to establish an understanding of the sentry behaviour in captive meerkats. This was done by observing meerkats in the Johannesburg Zoo and determining the behaviour of both sentries and non-sentries. Results showed that sentries were mostly adults, occupied high vantage points, scanned the sky more frequently, engaged in resting and foraging most commonly after duty and the time without a sentry was minimal. Results also showed that non-sentries foraged slightly more than they…

a prehistoric foraging radii to determine different foraging behaviors. The main idea that Morgan presents throughout the article is the concept of the foraging radius. The term foraging radius refers to the daily distance hunter gatherers travel from residential bases. Residential bases may include place where hunter gatherers sleep and places where their family and/or large social group resides to obtain food and other resources for survival. Even though information on the foraging radius is…

affected by, the social environment, as well as identifying and studying biological mechanisms that can explain differences in the social aspects of behavioral efforts, relationships, and stress reactivity into the discrepancies in aging. Honey bees provide a genetic model in sociobiology, behavioral neuroscience, and gerontology that is uniquely sensitive to social exchange. Gro Amdam has done a wide range of studies on the behavior of honey bees in their separate groupings. In this paper she…

Background: When it comes to social and developmental learning in individual Meerkats and groups of Meerkats there are many things that come into play. There have been debates as to the evolutionary origins of culture for identifying learning mechanisms in wild, natural populations. Meerkats are small carnivore animals that belong to the mongoose family. One thing that differs them from a lot of other mammals is one Meerkat often contains a clan of about 20-50 members. Throughout time Meerkats…