Blog 15 Eco 4

• 4. Behavioral Ecology: In Foraging, the model demonstrates a behavior of honeybees.  It represents  Charnov's (1976) Marginal Value Theorem, which predicts how long an animal should forage in a given patch. In Vigilance Behavior (Collective),  the model is shown of Pulliam's (1973) vigilance model  suggests that an advantage to birds of feeding in flocks is that there are multiple eyes eyes watching for predators. In Vigilance Behavior   Individual) the parameters for individual birds can be adjusted.  In Foraging, the model simulates the foraging behavior of two predator species and tracks the mean and standard deviation in energy for each species. An organism’s behavioral patterns are influenced by its genetics and can therefore evolve.