Chapter 10: Foraging

BBC-LifeOfBirds/1.3_TheInsatiableAppetite/#6:12 Eurasian Jays bury acorns & remember them (chap 1); 7:35 Acorn Woodpecker (chap 8)
BBC-LifeOfMammals/1.3_PlantPredators/#13:00 Bushbuck and African Elephants lick salt in cave
BBC-LifeOfMammals/2.2_MeatEaters/#19:00 Hunting Dogs hunt Wilderbeest, 25:40 wolves hunt Elk
BBC-PlanetEarth/3.2_Jungles/#41:00 40:00 elephants eat clay Chimpanzee eats figs, raid neighbor terrotory eat carcass
marginal_value τ = tau
preschool_imitators froot loops, cocoa puffs, captn crunch 


    

  1. Richardson's ground squirrel: omnivorous, insects

  2. Brown Bear: Salmon

  3. Yellow (Dark)-eyed junco: SW

  4. hippocampus: limbic system: long term memory and spatial navigation; resembles a seahorse;  Alzheimer's

  5. Streptomyces (subclass Actinomycetes): streptomycin (treat TB, rarely-used: hearing loss); neomycin

  6. Corvidae family: crows, ravens, jays

  7. Bluegill: united spinous and soft dorsal fins

  8. Thomson's gazelles behind cheetah

  9. Salt War of 1611 (Bavaria and Salzburg); 1877 El Paso

  10. linear programming: optimization of a linear objective function, subject to linear constraints.

  11. operations research: resource allocation: Airline routes, pricing; microeconomics and business management,

  12. Shrew: order Soricomorpha (formerly part if order Insectivora)

  13. Forebrain: frontal: thought, memory, behaviour; temporal: hearing, emotions; parietal: language, occipital: vision