1 | Mechanoreceptors | | _____ | forager's instantaneous harvest rate when it leaves a food patch |
2 | Lateral Line System | | _____ | mechanoreceptors in fish that provide hydrodynamic information |
3 | Piscivorous | | _____ | forager that consumes a narrow variety of food |
4 | Evolutionary Arms Race | | _____ | visual distinctions of an organism, that once learned, can enhance detection |
5 | Search Image | | _____ | energy contained in food divided by its handling time |
6 | Optimal Behavior | | _____ | fitness cost associated with being killed by a predator |
7 | Handling Time | | _____ | information known prior to sampling a parameter |
8 | Profitability (food) | | _____ | fitness cost incurred by choosing to engage in one activity over another |
9 | Generalist | | _____ | amount of time required to manipulate a food item so that it is ready to eat |
10 | Specialist | | _____ | acceptance of a food item some fraction of the time; a failure to follow the zero-one rule |
11 | Zero-one Rule | | _____ | decline in instantaneous harvest rate as a food patch is depleted |
12 | Partial Preference | | _____ | optimal foraging model that predicts how long an individual should exploit a food patch |
13 | Diminishing Returns | | _____ | density of food items left in a food patch when a forager leaves |
14 | Marginal Benefit | | _____ | sensory receptors sensitive to change in pressure |
15 | Marginal Value Theorem | | _____ | fish eating |
16 | Predation Risk Cost | | _____ | process of combining sample information and prior knowledge |
17 | Opportunity Cost | | _____ | back-and-forth process of adaptation in one species favoring counter-adaptation in another species |
18 | Quitting Harvest Rate | | _____ | benefit obtained by feeding for one more instant |
19 | Giving-up Density (GUD) | | _____ | prediction that each food type should either be always eaten when found or always rejected |
20 | Sample Information | | _____ | information obtained by sampling an unknown parameter |
21 | Prior Knowledge | | _____ | the behavior that maximizes fitness |
22 | Bayesian Estimation | | _____ | forager that consumes a wide variety of food |