Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 70: Anthropomorphism, Seismic Communication, Assortative Mating

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

One of most important animal behaviors is foraging - the search for food in animal"s environment. Cost-benefit analysis associated with foraging cost: going out to get food can take up time and energy. Goal is to get highest energy yield while expending least amount of energy: includes looking for food, and stalking prey. 2 main foraging strategies solitary foraging and group foraging: 1) solitary foraging animal looks for food by itself. Tigers do this: 2) group foraging - animals look for food in groups. Hunting based on both your behavior and those around you. Can lead to competition within a group if food is scarce. Benefit of this strategy is that animals can take down larger/more aggressive prey and everyone can benefit. ex. Foraging behavior is driven strongly by genetics, but can also be gained through learning, ex. young primates copy adults and this is how they learn to forage.