Rules of thumb for where to hunt

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Created by: BethCuddington
Created on: 11-12-16 13:15

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Rule of thumb for where to hunt
- Leaving sooner
  - Food becomes depleted so rate of intake becomes slower by staying. More profitable to move on
  - Higher intake of calories
- 1. NUMBER RULE
  - EXAMPLE: leave after catching N prey
- 2. TIME RULE
  - EXAMPLE: leave after t units on patch
- 3. GIVING UP TIME RULE
  - EXAMPLE: leave after t time of unsuccessful searching
- 4. RATE RULE
  - EXAMPLE: leave after catching rating falls to critical value r

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Report Wed 29th March, 2023 @ 07:55

Pretty simplistic. I'd add a few more factors, specifically "leaving if place is too occupied by others", i.e good example would be ducks - if there are too many in small condensed area, some of those are going to leave due to high competition(works both ways i.e if there are absolutely no other animals, probably there are no food, so they're going to avoid that area sometimes. One of the folks at drake waterfowl https://gritroutdoors.com/drake/ taught me that).