Social Foraging
Methods
Mystery
Keywords
Social Foraging (take 2)
100
An economic interaction between the actions of individuals and those of other foragers
What is Social Foraging
100
All squirrels in the study were tagged with _____.
What is PIT-tags
100
Glaucomys volans
What is the southern flying squirrel
100
A process that allows your body to maintain its core internal temperature.
What is thermoregulation
100
One animal observes another eating, is attracted and attempts to share food.
What is an uninvited guest during social foraging
200
Animals work together to trap elusive prey, or to take down larger prey
What is Cooperative Hunting
200
Located in natural tree cavities, 1 -1.5 m from ground and rotated on a bi-weekly basis at random
What is feeding stations
200
Alone, multiple, and simultaneous are all _____ categories
What are foraging categories
200
The genetic connection of kinship
What is Relatedness
200
Drone bees in a hive... Worker ants in a colony... etc
What are eusocial animals
300
An individual’s genetic fitness can be increased by cooperating with their kin
What is the Inclusive Fitness Concept
300
_____ were fitted on selected individuals for tracking purposes to locate all nest groups
What is radio collars
300
The top 3 models explaining distance traveled between nest cavity and feeding station
What are season + squirrel, season, and squirrel.
300
The process of working together to the same end
What is cooperation
300
increased vigilance Greater predator avoidance Sharing information
What are advantages of social foraging
400
Potential physical altercations Increased resource depletion rates Possible kleptoparasitism by non-group members
What are costs of social foraging
400
Feeding activity at feeding stations, referred to as _______
What is foraging events
400
An energetically efficient way to progress from one tree to another while foraging
What is gliding
400
A stored and / or hidden amount of food resources
What is a Cache
400
Reciprocation, Manipulation, and Mutualism are all ...
What is mechanisms of non-kin cooperation
500
When resources are patchy or unevenly distributed, group foraging will be favoured
What is the 'information center' hypothesis
500
Individual squirrel sex season squirrel + season squirrel + sex season + sex squirrel + season + sex (global model)
What is variation models
500
Year range that the study was conducted during
What is 2009 -2011
500
The degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups and form cooperative societies
What is sociality
500
A way to mitigate the costs of social foraging
What is kin based foraging groups
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