Foraging

contrast, foraging was gathering various resources like plants. Foraging is also associated with hunting because the Natives were gathering resources, but they were taking the animals meat and fur. Agriculture has many advantages, such as independence, trade, efficiency, organization, and it can produce urban societies. However, seasonal growth can lead to famine, there was a risk for more warfare, the land was overpopulated, and it was not as healthy as hunting and foraging. Hunting and…

species by the ocean. “Gulls are one of the birds that adapted to human urbanization and consequently expanded their population size (Belant, 1997)”. The gulls were not stranger when we got to where they were and start throwing food, they started foraging for the crackers we were throwing for them. “Because of human-derived food availability in Northern America gulls populations have increased tremendously (Belant…

Different birds gather food in different ways. Foraging is the searching for food resources or gathering food either for immediate consumption or future storage. Birds forage in flocks because they gather more information in flocks than their own intelligence. Group foraging boost-up the chances of detecting predators. While foraging some birds keep vigilance and keep their eye on predation threat. Therefore birds would randomly choose between foraging and keeping vigilance. Birds have some kind…

conditioned by another feature of their anatomy, their beaks. A decurved bill such as the one present in Numenius arquata has numerous advantages over a straight bill for such foraging on mudflats. Foraging Curlews use probing as a way to take their prey from the soil surface. Nebel, Jackson, & Elner (2005) define probing as a foraging technique that consists in inserting the bill into the sediment, allowing the capture of invertebrates that live below the surface (infaunal prey). Based on…

individual assessments of a food source's absolute quality, or that the honey bees can cover more then $100$ square kilometers around the hive during foraging. In joint work with Camazine and Sneyd, Seeley showed that waggle dance of the worker bees is changing in relation to the absolute quality of a food source. When the quality of the food is high, the foraging bees dance longer and more vigorously \cite{seeley1991,seeley2000}. It can be noted that to conclude a mathematical model of this…

Often times when thinking of those who hold the leadership position in our communities and country, we automatically think of a male. We see this more with our leader of the country, as there has been women who have taken the position of a mayor in communities. Gender really does not matter when coming to the position of the leader within a city or state or even country. According to pewsocialtrends.org, both genders come to agreement on the important traits a leader must withhold. The traits…

Throughout human history, food has been a commodity used and traded by many cultures. In the era of the Neolithic Revolution, food also became an investment as many withdrew from their nomadic days of hunting and gathering, in favor of agriculture. As time proceeded, food had found its way for many other uses that would benefit some, but prove detrimental to others. In “An Edible History of Humanity”, the exploitation of food led to new warfare strategies, food-based governmental regimes, and an…

to the creation of the first automobiles replacing horse buggies. One of the greatest inventions of time is farming. However, agricultural farming did not automatically produce a successful outcome. Some people wanted to dramatically adapt from foraging to farming. In some places like Australia, Aborigines refused to accept agriculture…

In Dr Deborah Gordon tech talk, “How Ant Colonies Get Things Done” she presents her findings from studying a collection of ant colonies in New Mexico for the past 25 years. More specifically, she focus on the Red Carpenter ant species. While colonies of ants may look at first glance like simply a bunch of ants running around aimlessly, a closer and more careful look shows substantial social organization. A colony can solve problems unthinkable for individual ants, such as finding the shortest…

“Elevated surface temperature depresses survival of banner-tailed kangaroo rats: will climate change cook a desert icon” by Moses, Frey, and Roemer is about the ecological and physiological effects on Kangaroo rats based on uprising temperatures. The species used for this experiment was the Kangaroo rat also known as the Dipodomys spectabilis. This species was used in this experiment because of previous physiological research and because it is a species that will be suitable to observe behavior…