The Ideal Free Distribution with Kleptop
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Graeme D. Ruxton; Anthony L. Moody
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We present a simple mechanistic model describing kleptoparasitic (food stealing) behaviour among a group of foragers. This behavioural model is used to produce an analytic expression for the food uptake rate (functional response) of individual foragers in the presence of kleptoparasitism. The parame