A 1981 paper by Kacelnik et al. describes optimal territorial defense and this behavior in the great tit, Parus major. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this feeding behavior in which an organism searches its environment for food.
ANSWER: foraging [accept word forms like forage]
[10m] Richard J. Cowie employed Aschoff and Pohl’s equation for this quantity to demonstrate the optimality of Parus major’s foraging. The Harris–Benedict equation gives this quantity as a function of height, age, and weight.
ANSWER: BMR [or base metabolic rate, basal metabolic rate, SMR, or standard metabolic rate; prompt on partial answer]
[10h] Specific term required. Eric Charnov’s marginal value theorem of optimal foraging models animals that travel among these discretized subsets of its habitat. An ecological approach popular in the late 20th century studied the “dynamics” of these things that cluster into mosaics.
ANSWER: patches [or patch dynamics]
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