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“However, much foraging in water, by both humans and other primates, is conducted in the shallows and at low speeds of locomotion that include elements of turning, as befits searching for cryptic or hidden foods within a patch.”
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“while in reality wading probably tends to consist of (a) small steps as both a response to moving through a more viscous medium and the advantage that slower locomotion affords when searching within foraging patches (Viswanathan et al., 1999), (b) some degree of turning to remain within a foraging patch and respond to cues about food location.”
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- Authors
- Viswanathan, G. M., Buldyrev, S. V., Havlin, S., da Luz, M. G. E., Raposo, E. P., & Stanley, H. E.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1999-10
- Volume
- 401
- Issue
- 6756
- Pages
- 911-914
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- 1476-4687
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- 1,359
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- Language
- en
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- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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