The value of clumping to prey
- 31 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Oecologia
- Vol. 30 (3), 285-294
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01833636
Abstract
Southern grasshopper mice (Onychomys torridus) were allowed to junt buried mealworms in a laboratory arena. The prey were arranged in two patterns, one aggregated and one relatively dispersed. Mice captured more prey from the dispersed treatment in the 2 h experiment, a result that can be attributed to both the greater ease of finding the first prey and a more efficient style of search for dispersed prey.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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