foraging

Individual exploration and selective social learning: balancing exploration–exploitation trade-offs in collective foraging

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 …

Hunter-gatherer foraging networks promote information transmission

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 …

Efficient Lévy Walks in Virtual Human Foraging

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 …