Abstract: The chapter describes a simple economic model that predicts in a qualitative way on how costs (lost feeding opportunity and risk) interact to produce an optimal flight distance from approaching predators. Animals often defer the decision to flee from an approaching predator and continue with their ongoing activities. The view is that, a profitable approach to the problem of why such decisions are deferred, and how they are eventually made, is to view the process as an economic, one in which the relative costs of fleeing and staying change as a predator approaches. It is suggested that the economic approach will prove useful in analyzing many aspects of predator-prey interactions.
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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