Dedicated to all Zoologists

3. What is foraging???
Foraging is searching for wild food resources. It affects an
animal's fitness because it plays an important role in an
animal's ability to survive and reproduce.
Types of foraging
Foraging can be categorized into two main types.
1. Solitary foraging
2. Group foraging

5. Tools used in solitary foraging
 Dolphins using sponges to feed on fish that bury
themselves in the sediment.

6.  Chimpanzees use sticks to capture and consume termites.

7.  A crab-eating macaque using a stone.

8. Examples of solitary foraging in mammals:
Dog foraging solitary
Squirrel foraging solitary

9. Group foraging
 Group foraging is when animals find, capture and consume
prey in the presence of other individuals.
 A groups of predators work together to isolate one or a few
animals from a larger herd.
 Group foraging can emerge in two types of situations.

10.  The first situation is occurs when foraging in a group is beneficial and brings greater
rewards known as an aggregation economy.
 The second situation occurs when a group of animals forage together but it may not
be in an animal's best interest to do so known as a dispersion economy.

11. Examples of group foraging in mammals:
 Loins (Panthera leo)
 Hyenas (family Hyaenidae)
 Wolves (Canis lupus)

12. Loins (Panthera leo)

13. Hyenas (family Hyaenidae)

14. Wolves (Canis lupus)