Group Foraging, Public Information, and Patch Estimation
- 1 November 1989
- Vol. 56 (3) , 357-363
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3565621
Abstract
Public information is information about the quality of a patch that can be obtained by observing the foraging success of other individuals in that patch. I examine the influence of the use of public information on patch departure and foraging efficiency of group members. When groups depart a patch with the first individual to leave, the use of public information can prevent the underutilization of resource patches.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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