Linking social foraging behaviour with individual time budgets and emergent group-level phenomena

摘要: A social group's time budget is an emergent property of individual-level decisions about how to allocate time. One fundamental determinant these allocation foraging success. Yet while there a growing appreciation animals optimize their behaviour, our understanding the mechanisms that link this behaviour with individual use, and thus group-level budgets, relatively poor. In review, we explore current budgets at level budgets. We highlight research into differences in comparably limited. then individual-based mechanistic modelling may provide useful tool for elucidating drives patterns, patterns turn give rise An improved links between three phenomena will not only allow us address more challenging evolutionary questions, but also enable better predict manage impacts changing environment on future.