ArticleLearning & behavior2022
Hummingbirds modify their routes to avoid a poor location.
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- Ant foraging: optimizing self-organization as a solution to a traveling salesman problem.Oecologia · 2025Article
- The function of episodic memory in animals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Using motion-detection cameras to monitor foraging behaviour of individual butterflies.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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Abstract
Traplining, when animals repeat the order in which they visit a number of locations, is taxonomically widespread, but little is known about which factors influence the routes that animals follow. For example, as the quality of rewarding locations changes over time, foragers are expected to update their traplines, either to prioritize locations where the reward increases or to avoid locations that have ceased to be profitable. Here, we tested how traplining wild hummingbirds responded to increases or to decreases in the sucrose concentration of one of the flowers on their trapline. Hummingbirds did not change their trapline to visit the flower with the increased reward first, but by changing the order in which they visited flowers, they avoided a flower that contained a decreased reward. Depending on where along the trapline the reduced-content flower occurred, hummingbirds either changed the origin of their trapline or changed the direction in which they flew around their trapline. It may be that this asymmetric modification of foraging traplines is especially noticeable in risk-averse foragers, such as these territorial hummingbirds.
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