Behavioral games involving a clever prey avoiding a clever predator: An individual-based model of dusky dolphins and killer whales

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2687-2698

  Srinivasan, Mridula ^a   Grant, William E ^a   Swannack, Todd M ^a,c   Rajan, Jolly ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army Engineer Research and Development Center ^*  (United States)

^c US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dusky dolphins; Foraging costs; Indirect predation risk; Killer whales; Predator prey interactions; Spatially explicit individual based model

Indexed keywords

DUSKY DOLPHINS; FORAGING COSTS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; KILLER WHALE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES); ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FEEDING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

MAMMALS;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; COGNITION; DOLPHIN; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SENSORY SYSTEM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WHALE;

KAIKOURA; MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

ANIMALIA; LAGENORHYNCHUS OBSCURUS; MAMMALIA; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 77956972955     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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