Imagine that you are studying two populations of tropical lizards that inhabit areas where high-quality food items are distributed patchily (i.e., it would take some time to travel from patch to patch). Lizard population A inhabits an area with high predation risk while lizard population B inhabits an area with low predation risk (e.g., birds of prey). How might you expect foraging patterns to differ between these two lizard populations with respect to the time spent in a given patch? Construct your argument by modifying what you have learned about the marginal value theorem.

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The Answer of Imagine that you are studying two populations of tropical lizards that inhabit areas where high-quality food items are distributed patchily (i.e., it would take some time to travel from patch to patch). Lizard population A inhabits an area with high predation risk while lizard population B inhabits an area with low predation risk (e.g., birds of prey). How might you expect foraging patterns to differ between these two lizard populations with respect to the time spent in a given patch? Construct your argument by modifying what you have learned about the marginal value theorem.

Imagine That You Are Studying Two Populations of Tropical Lizards