Patch Use and Patch Depletion by the Spider and Howling Monkeys of Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica
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Many of the models proposed to explain aspects of foraging behaviour, group size, or social structure assume animals use resources that occur in patches, and that through such use the patches become depleted. For instance, a number of models developed to predict group size suggest that the costs and benefits of using patches vary with group size, such that for a given resource state there is an optimal group size which tends to maximize foraging efficiency (S. ALTMANN, 1974; BRADBURY & VEHREN-
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تاریخ انتشار 2009