Foraging decisions in a digestively constrained long-distance migrant, the red knot (Calidris canutus)

Animals are continuously making decisions. A lion encountering an impala decides on attacking or neglecting it. A robin in the backyard makes a choice on the number of eggs to produce. Behavioural ecologists aim to understand and possibly to predict the outcome of such decisions. Why does the lion decide to ignore this impala but to attack and slaughter the next one? Why does the robin in one backyard lay four eggs while another one elsewhere lays six? Behavioural ecologists study such decision-making processes from a Darwinian point of view, meaning that they expect animals to choose those options that maximize their number of offspring in the long-term future (fitness)....

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