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Social Foraging

Social foraging is a behavioral ecology theory that explains how animals optimize food acquisition through collective decision-making and information sharing among conspecifics, distinguishing it from solitary foraging strategies by emphasizing the adaptive benefits of social interactions in resource exploitation.

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2017–2026

315

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Biomimicry of bacterial foraging for distributed optimization and control

Kevin M. Passino · IEEE Control Systems · 2002 · 3.1K citations

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The foraging spectrum: diversity in hunter-gatherer lifeways

Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 1.6K citations

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The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation

Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson, Joseph Henrich · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 1.3K citations

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THE IMPORTANCE OF CERTAIN ASSEMBLAGES OF BIRDS AS “INFORMATION‐CENTRES” FOR FOOD‐FINDING

Peter D. Ward, Amotz Zahavi · Ibis · 1973 · 1.1K citations

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Reciprocal food sharing in the vampire bat

Gerald S. Wilkinson · Nature · 1984 · 1K citations

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  1. KN
    Kevin N. Laland

    University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

    35 publications · 4.4K citations

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  2. LG
    Luc‐Alain Giraldeau

    Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

    23 publications · 2.1K citations

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  3. BG
    Bennett G. Galef

    McMaster University, Canada

    24 publications · 2.4K citations

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  4. AW
    Andrew Whiten

    University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

    17 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. MT
    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    14 publications · 1.7K citations

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  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    47 h-index

    141 publications

    15.5K citations

  2. University of St Andrews

    St Andrews, United Kingdom

    44 h-index

    134 publications

    11K citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    33 h-index

    94 publications

    8.4K citations

  4. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    31 h-index

    89 publications

    6.9K citations

  5. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    28 h-index

    61 publications

    5.4K citations

  6. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    27 h-index

    84 publications

    4.5K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    26 h-index

    104 publications

    5.5K citations

  8. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    26 h-index

    73 publications

    5.2K citations

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Venues

  1. Animal Behaviour

    206 publications · 16.9K citations

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  2. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    108 publications · 9K citations

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  4. Behavioral Ecology

    80 publications · 4.7K citations

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  5. Behaviour

    66 publications · 4.5K citations

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