Animals balance threat of starvation with threat of predators to stay alive
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 07:01
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—In the natural world, searching for food is a high-stakes game in which animals risk starving to death or being killed by a predator. New research from the University of Bristol shows that to stay alive in a changing environment, animals must carefully time when they go out looking for food and when they hide from predators.