TY - BOOK ID - 77874005 TI - Foraging AU - Stephens, David W AU - Brown, Joel S AU - Ydenberg, Ronald C PY - 2007 SN - 0226772659 1281966568 9786611966560 9780226772653 9780226772639 0226772632 9780226772646 0226772640 9781281966568 6611966560 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Animals KW - Animal diets KW - Animal feeding behavior KW - Animal food KW - Animal food habits KW - Animal foods KW - Animals, Food habits of KW - Feeding behavior in animals KW - Food habits in animals KW - Food of wild animals KW - Foraging behavior in animals KW - Animal behavior KW - Food KW - Food. KW - Feeding behavior KW - Food habits KW - Foods KW - Foraging behavior KW - ecology, ecological, behavior, behavioral, evolution, evolutionary, biology, sciences, scientific, biological, imperative, foraging, foragers, cognitive science, anthropology, conservation, economics, neurobiology, technology, cognition, population, community, mammals, amphibians, food, eating, survival, neuroethology, energy storage, social interactions, diversity, dynamics, free distribution, provisioning, animals, wildlife. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874005 AB - Foraging is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter of finding food; it is a biological imperative. Animals must find and consume resources to succeed, and they make extraordinary efforts to do so. For instance, pythons rarely eat, but when they do, their meals are large-as much as 60 percent larger than their own bodies. The snake's digestive system is normally dormant, but during digestion metabolic rates can increase fortyfold. A python digesting quietly on the forest floor has the metabolic rate of thoroughbred in a dead heat ER -