Discrimination behaviour mediates foraging trade-off between food quality and quantity

• 作 者: Wenwen Chen Chris Newman David Macdonald Shucun Sun Youbing Zhou
• 机 构: Department of Biology,Nanjing University;Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 出 处: 第十一届全国野生动物生态及自然资源学术研讨会
• 发表日期: 2015年3期
• 关键词: discrimination behaviour foraging strategy food quality food quantity trade-off

　　Discrimination,the ability to distinguish different sensory stimuli and generate different behavioural responses to them,plays a critical role in the survival of animals by influencing foraging and many other behaviours.Yet,little is known about the potential mechanisms involved in determining how discrimination behaviour mediates foraging strategies under different quality of food.