It's about time: Feeding competition costs of sociality are affected more by temporal characteristics than spatial distribution
Marcy Ekanayake‐Weber,
Namita Mathew,
Deanna Cunha
et al.
Abstract:For most herbivorous animals, group‐living appears to incur a high cost by intensifying feeding competition. These costs raise the question of how gregariousness (i.e., the tendency to aggregate) could have evolved to such an extent in taxa such as anthropoid primates and ungulates. When attempting to test the potential benefits and costs, previous foraging models demonstrated that group‐living might be beneficial by lowering variance in intake, but that it reduces overall foraging success. However, these mode… Show more
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