Projektnummer

0069751

Zusammenfassung

Movement is fundamental in life, but it is a complex phenomenon influenced by an organism's motion capacity and its environment. Using an optimality approach, animals should move in ways to exploit energy available in the physical environment that reduces movement costs (e.g., media flows) while putting in the least amount of mechanical effort to do so. However, this physical energy is notoriously difficult to locate, especially in dynamic aerial and marine environments where it is an invisible and ephemeral resource. We know that social information plays a vital role for animals locat...