Sih and Christensen (2001) reviewed 134 studies to examine the success of optimal diet theory. They found that
A) the model did a good job of explaining diets of foragers that consume prey that are immobile or essentially immobile.
B) the model performed best at predicting diets of foragers when the prey items were active.
C) the model performed better when predicting the diets of mammals than it did that of birds or fish.
D) there was a great deal of agreement from one study to the next in terms of the performance success of the model.
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