Foraging and Feeding Behaviour

To eat and not be eaten: optimal foraging behaviour in suspension feeding copepods.

Zooplankton feed on microscopic prey that they either entrain in a feeding current or encounter as they cruise through the water. They generate fluid disturbances as they feed and move, thus elevating their risk of being detected and encountered by predators. Different feeding modes generate different hydrodynamic signals to predators and different predator encounter speeds but may also differ ...

Temporal dynamics and foraging behaviour in honeybees

Learning at the feeding site initiates various forms of memory which differ with respect to their temporal dynamics, contents and stability when exposed to successive experiences. Neurobiological analyses indicate that these different forms of memory reside in different parts of the brain: the non-associative memory in the antennal lobes, the associative memory in the mushroom bodies. Single-ce...

Child Characteristics and Feeding Behaviour

Feeding behaviour in rabbits

As a monogastric herbivore, the rabbit presents a unique feeding behaviour compared to other domestic animals, since he belongs to the Lagomorpha order (Leporidae family: rabbits and hares, Grassé and Dekeuser, 1955), and consequently possess a main specificity that is the caecotrophy. For recall (see details in chapter 1), the caecotrophy is a complete behaviour involving an excretion and an i...

Foraging behaviour and invasiveness: do invasive Gambusia exhibit higher feeding rates and broader diets than their noninvasive relatives?

Serious impacts by nonindigenous species often occur via predation. The magnitude of impact is expected to be closely tied to the invading species niche breadth. For predatory impacts, diet breadth should be particularly important. We examined the relationship between a species foraging behaviour and its invasiveness and impact by comparing the feeding behaviour of four Gambusia species, two in...