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The Glass is Half-Full: Overestimating the Quality of a Novel Environment is Advantageous

According to optimal foraging theory, foraging decisions are based on the forager's current estimate of the quality of its environment. However, in a novel environment, a forager does not possess information regarding the quality of the environment, and may make a decision based on a biased est...

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Autores principales: Berger-Tal, Oded, Avgar, Tal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3317990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22509326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034578