Open AccessBook
Food Hoarding in Animals
Vander Wall,B Stephen +1 more
- 10 Jul 1990
1.1K
TL;DR: In this first comprehensive synthesis of the literature on food hoarding in animals, Stephen B. Vander Wall discusses how animals store food, how they use food and how this use affects individual fitness, and provides detailed coverage of hoarding behavior across taxa-mammals, birds, and arthropods.
read more
Abstract: In this first comprehensive synthesis of the literature on food hoarding in animals, Stephen B. Vander Wall discusses how animals store food, how they use food and how this use affects individual fitness, why and how food hoarding evolved, how cached food is lost, mechanisms for protecting and recovering cached food, physiological and behavioral factors that influence hoarding, and the impact that hoarding animals have on plant populations and plant dispersal. He then provides detailed coverage of hoarding behavior across taxa-mammals, birds, and arthropods-to address issues in evolution, ecology, and behavior. Drawings, photographs, and appendixes document complex and intrinsically interesting food-hoarding behaviors, and the bibliography of nearly 1,500 sources is itself an invaluable and unique reference.
read more
Chat with Paper
AI Agents for this Paper
Find similar papers on Google Scholar, PubMed and Arxiv
Write a critical review of this paper
Analyze citations of this paper to find unaddressed research gaps
Citations
A simple method for detection of food foraging behavior in the rat: involvement of NMDA and dopamine receptors in the behavior
Fang Li,Wen-Yu Cao,M.-B. Li,Yuanzhong Xu,Juan Zhang,Jian-Wei Zhang,Xue-Gang Luo,Ruping Dai,Xin-Fu Zhou,Chang-Qi Li +9 more
TL;DR: This study developed a novel laboratory rodent model to detect competitive, non-competitive, and no-hurdle foraging conditions that can mimic the corresponding environment in nature and suggests that dopaminergic and glutaminergic systems are differentially involved in the food foraging behaviors.
Camera-trapping and seed-labelling reveals widespread granivory and scatter-hoarding of nuts by rodents in the Fynbos Biome
TL;DR: Scatter-hoarding was widespread throughout the Fynbos Biome, although it was highly localised across and within sampled sites and the absence of scatter-hoarded rodents at sites with rodent-dispersed plants remains an important aspect for future investigation.
Episodic memory: what can animals remember about their past?
TL;DR: The critical features of episodic memory in humans, its relationship to declarative memory, and recent results revealing that jays can learn to perform a task that depends on certain features of Episodic memory and can thus be considered 'episodic-like' are outlined.
Time and food dependence in willow tit winter survival
TL;DR: Whether late winter is the most difficult time for birds, and whether temperature, especially in late winter, correlates with survival, is examined, to examine Willow Tits, near Oulu, northern Finland.