12/3(火) 10:00-11:30　Dr. Ahmed のトークセミナー「Mechanistic theory of (social) foraging」を開催します

2024.10.23

Place

脳科学中央研究棟３階 S305 ⼩セミナー室

Tittle

Mechanistic theory of (social) foraging

Abstract

Foraging is a universal behavior performed by all animals in order to acquire energy and survive in their environment. Animals including human beings show tremendous flexibility in their foraging decision strategies in the face of changing environments. In this talk, I will present a quantitative framework that account for decision strategies employed by a single or group of animals in environments with a variety of statistical structures. As foraging experiments are becoming increasingly popular, such a quantitative framework is key to generate hypotheses about the potential decision strategies an animal might be using and provide an approach to perform quantitative evolutionary behavioral comparisons across species. Moreover, the (microscopic) mechanistic model presented can be used to account for macroscopic phenomena such as social contagion and flocking. The longterm aim is thus of generating a unified theory of foraging that is both generative and mathematically tractable.

Speaker

Dr Ahmed El Hady
Group Leader at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaivour Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Germany
https://www.ab.mpg.de/person/111828