Optimal foraging when regulating intake of multiple nutrients

• Published in: Animal behaviour Vol. 68; no. 6; pp. 1299 - 1311
• Main Authors: Simpson, Stephen J., Sibly, Richard M., Lee, Kwang Pum, Behmer, Spencer T., Raubenheimer, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kent Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2004; Elsevier; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Ltd
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Animal ethology; Animals; Biological and medical sciences; Community structure; Diet; Food; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Herbivores; Nutrient balance; Predation; Protozoa. Invertebrata; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Resource exploitation; Snakes; Spodoptera littoralis; Laboratory study; Feeding behavior; Growth rate; Decision making; Theory; Insecta; Review; Cost benefit analysis; Foraging behavior; Spodoptera littoralis; Arthropoda; Lepidoptera; Strategy; Noctuidae; Invertebrata; Optimal foraging

There is growing evidence that, rather than maximizing energy intake subject to constraints, many animals attempt to regulate intake of multiple nutrients independently. In the complex diets of animals such as herbivores, the consumption of nutritionally imbalanced foods is sometimes inevitable, for...