An empirical demonstration of risk-sensitive foraging preferences¶
Caraco, T., Martindale, S., & Whittam, T. S. (1980). An empirical demonstration of risk-sensitive foraging preferences. Animal Behaviour, 3472(80), 820-830.
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- Expected Utility
- Biology & ecology (non-obvious): Risk-sensitive foraging models treat animals as choosing between variable food patches as if maximizing expected fitness rather than expected calories, with concavity or convexity of the fitness function predicting risk-averse or risk-prone behavior depending on energetic state.
This sourceShows juncos choosing among variable food patches as a function of expected daily energy budget — preferring constant rewards on positive budgets and variable rewards on negative budgets
- Biology & ecology (non-obvious): Risk-sensitive foraging models treat animals as choosing between variable food patches as if maximizing expected fitness rather than expected calories, with concavity or convexity of the fitness function predicting risk-averse or risk-prone behavior depending on energetic state.
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