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In Example 1 in Chapter 2 I outlined a very simple model of sleeping behaviour in mammals. This model tackled the question of how long an animal should sleep once it has fallen asleep. In this chapter we shall look at some ‘real’ models which tackle similar questions. These models tackle questions about how an animal should perform a behaviour given that it is maximising some simple optimality criterion — models involving optimisation of a single behaviour. As it happens most of the models in this chapter are about foraging behaviour, and this particular branch of behavioural ecology is known as optimal foraging theory.
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Lendrem, D. (1986). Optimising a Single Behaviour 1: Optimal Foraging Theory. In: Modelling in Behavioural Ecology. Studies in Behavioural Adaptation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6568-6_3
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