Search requires balancing exploring for more options and exploiting the ones previously found. Individuals foraging in a group face another trade-off - whether to engage in social learning to exploit the solutions found by others or to solitarily …
Central-place foraging (CPF), where foragers return to a central location (or home), is a key feature of hunter–gatherer social organization. CPF could have significantly changed hunter–gatherers’ spatial use and mobility, altered social networks and …
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An example of emergent trajectories in the model. Each dot represents a forager: The emergent network from interactions between foragers (adjust zoom to keep the network in view):
Efficient foraging depends on decisions that account for the costs and benefits of various activities like movement, perception, and planning. We conducted a virtual foraging experiment set in the foothills of the Himalayas to examine how time and …