TY - JOUR
T1 - Decision making in foraging bats
AU - Prat, Yosef
AU - Yovel, Yossi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - Foraging is a complex and cognitively demanding behavior. Although it is often regarded as a mundane task, foraging requires the continuous weighting and integration of many sources of information with varying levels of credence. Bats are extremely diverse in their ecology and behavior, and thus demonstrate a wide variety of foraging strategies. In this review, we examine the different factors influencing the decision process of bats during foraging. Technological developments of recent years will soon enable real-time tracking of environmental conditions, of the position and quality of food items, the location of conspecifics, and the bat's movement history. Monitoring these variables alongside the continuous movement of the bat will facilitate the testing of different decision-making theories such as the use of reinforcement learning in wild free ranging bats and other animals.
AB - Foraging is a complex and cognitively demanding behavior. Although it is often regarded as a mundane task, foraging requires the continuous weighting and integration of many sources of information with varying levels of credence. Bats are extremely diverse in their ecology and behavior, and thus demonstrate a wide variety of foraging strategies. In this review, we examine the different factors influencing the decision process of bats during foraging. Technological developments of recent years will soon enable real-time tracking of environmental conditions, of the position and quality of food items, the location of conspecifics, and the bat's movement history. Monitoring these variables alongside the continuous movement of the bat will facilitate the testing of different decision-making theories such as the use of reinforcement learning in wild free ranging bats and other animals.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.conb.2019.12.006
DO - 10.1016/j.conb.2019.12.006
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C2 - 31927435
AN - SCOPUS:85077517143
SN - 0959-4388
VL - 60
SP - 169
EP - 175
JO - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
JF - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
ER -