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Most animals are predators of one sort or another, even if only on plant material or immobile seeds. Any animal which has to harvest food from the environment faces broadly similar problems. Having decided to feed, it must then decide where to feed, what sort of food items to take, when to move to a new feeding area and so on.172 This applies as much to herbivores and detritus feeders as it does to animals which hunt mobile prey.
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Barnard, C.J. (1983). Finding Food. In: Animal Behaviour. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9781-0_6
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