Scale-free foraging by primates emerges from their interaction with a complex environment

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dc.creatorBoyer, Denis
dc.creatorRamos-Fernández, Gabriel
dc.creatorMiramontes, Octavio
dc.creatorMateos, José L.
dc.creatorCocho, Germinal
dc.creatorLarralde, Hernán
dc.creatorRamos, Humberto
dc.creatorRojas, Fernando
dc.date2006-01-17
dc.date2006-01-31
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:00:06Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:00:06Z
dc.descriptionScale-free foraging patterns are widespread among animals. These may be the outcome of an optimal searching strategy to find scarce randomly distributed resources, but a less explored alternative is that this behaviour may result from the interaction of foraging animals with a particular distribution of resources. We introduce a simple foraging model where individuals follow mental maps and choose their displacements according to a maximum efficiency criterion, in a spatially disordered environment containing many trees with a heterogeneous size distribution. We show that a particular tree size frequency distribution induces non-Gaussian movement patterns with multiple spatial scales (Lévy walks). These results are consistent with tree size variation and Spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) foraging patterns. We discuss the consequences that our results may have for the patterns of seed dispersal by foraging primates.
dc.description31 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Proc. Roy. Soc. B. Minor revisions
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0601024
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0601024
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/107961
dc.subjectPopulations and Evolution
dc.subjectDisordered Systems and Neural Networks
dc.titleScale-free foraging by primates emerges from their interaction with a complex environment
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