Why These Bears “Waste” Food
Optimal foraging theory means that turning down food is sometimes more efficient than eating it - but even then, what’s “wasted” doesn’t necessarily go to waste.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Foraging: to search widely for food.
- Optimal Foraging Theory: A behavioral model that describes how an animal should behave when searching for food.
- Surplus Killing: a common behavior exhibited by predators, in which they kill more prey than they can immediately eat and then cache or abandon the remainder.
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