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Optimal Foraging Theory Rides Again

Foraging: Behavior and Ecology. Edited by David W. Stephens, Joel S. Brown, and Ronald C. Ydenberg. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2007. 608 pp., $99.00 (cloth)/$45.00 (paper). ISBN 0-226-77263-2 (cloth)/0-226-77264-0 (paper)

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Sayers, K. Optimal Foraging Theory Rides Again. J Mammal Evol 15, 291–293 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-008-9079-5

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