Optimal Foraging Theory. - A Brief History of Optimal Foraging Ecology. - Faith and Foraging: A Critique of the Paradigm Argument from Design. - The Problem of Selectivity. - A Test of the Energy Maximization Premise of Optimal Foraging Theory. - Delivering Food to a Central Place: Three Studies of Bee-Eaters MeropsApiaster. - Operant Conditioning Simulations of Foraging and the Delay-Reduction Hypothesis. - Foraging Behavior of Some Wintering Waders: Prey-Selection and Habitat Distribution. - Foraging Time Constraints and Diet Choice. - Patch Utilization. - Stochastic Models of Optimal Foraging. - Starlings and Optimal Foraging Theory: Modelling in a Fractal World. - Tests of Optimal Foraging Using an Operant Analogue. - Competition for Non-Depleting Resources: The Ideal Free Distribution in Sticklebacks. - Foraging Games in a Random Environment. - The Reproductive Consequences of Foraging. - Reproductive Consequences of Dietary Specialization and Switching in an Ecological Generalist. - The Consequences of Foraging for Reproductive Success. - Parents Nestlings and Feedings Frequency: A Model of Optimal Parental Investment and Implications for Avian Reproductive Strategies. - Learning and Foraging. - The Role of Learning in Honey Bee Foraging. - Adaption to Reward. - Signal Detection Theory and Foraging for Cryptic or Mimetic Prey. - Foraging Theory and Design. - Should Foragers Remember Where They've Been? Explorations of a Simulation Model Based on the Behavior and Energetics of Territorial Hummingbirds. - Randon and Systematic Foraging Experimental Studies of Depletion and Schedules of Reinforcement. - Caching Behavior. - Cache-Protecting Behavior of Food-Hoarding Animals. - Cache Site Memory in Birds. Language: English