A Laboratory Simulation of Foraging Behavior: The Effect of Search Rate on the Probability of Detecting Prey

Autor:	John Staddon, Robert P. Gendron
Rok vydání:	1984
Předmět:	Character (mathematics) Ecology Foraging behavior and behavior mechanisms Zoology sense organs Biology skin and connective tissue diseases Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Predation
Zdroj:	The American Naturalist. 124:407-415
ISSN:	1537-5323 0003-0147
DOI:	10.1086/284281
Popis:	In a series of laboratory simulations using humans as model predators, we examined the effect of changes in search rate and crypticity on the probability of detecting prey. The subjects searched for a target character (the "prey") among an array of background characters displayed on the screen of a small computer. The search rate was controlled by changing the display duration while prey crypticity was varied by changing the background. The results of these experiments provide support for a model we previously developed to elucidate the behavior of predators searching for cryptic prey (Gendron and Staddon 1983).
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