ArticleBiology letters2020
The power of odour cues in shaping fine-scale search patterns of foraging mammalian herbivores.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Wind conditions do not consistently affect large-scale movement decisions of large savanna herbivores.Oecologia · 2026Article
- The deterrent effects of individual monoterpene odours on the dietary decisions of African elephants.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- The Olfactory Landscape Concept: A Key Source of Past, Present, and Future Information Driving Animal Movement and Decision-making.Bioscience · 2022Article
- Behavioural drivers of survey bias: interactive effects of personality, the perceived risk and device properties.Oecologia · 2021Article
- Modeling mycorrhizal fungi dispersal by the mycophagous swamp wallaby (Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- To eat, or not to eat: a phantom decoy affects information-gathering behavior by a free-ranging mammalian herbivore.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Foraging by mammalian herbivores has profound impacts on natural and modified landscapes, yet we know little about how they find food, limiting our ability to predict and manage their influence. Mathematical models show that foragers exploiting odour cues outperform a random walk strategy. However, discovering how free-ranging foragers exploit odours in real, complex landscapes has proven elusive because of technological constraints. We took a novel approach, using a sophisticated purpose-built thermal camera system to record fine-scale foraging by a generalist mammalian herbivore, the swamp wallaby (
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