ScienceDirect - Ecological Modelling : A parsimonious optimal foraging model explaining mortality patterns in Serengeti wildebeest

Wildebeest follow a single decision rule in good and poor rainfall years, viz. move when foraging elsewhere increases your rate of intake of nutritious food. Similarly, predators follow a single decision rule in good and poor rainfall years, viz. take the prey item that maximizes the intake of energy per unit effort expended. This parsimonious model does not require differences in predator sensitivity as required by Sinclair and Arcese's (1995) model. I indicate ways in which my model can be falsified.

ScienceDirect - Ecological Modelling : A parsimonious optimal foraging model explaining mortality patterns in Serengeti wildebeest