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PARENT SESSION
Monday, August 7, 8:00-11:30 am
COS 3 - Foraging strategies and behavior
L-11, Lobby Level, Cook Convention Center
Presiders: R Whyte and L Hernández

8:00 AMParsons, Jennifer*,1, Bissell, Heidi2, Ouellette, John2, Rude, Brian1, 1 Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS2 Memphis Zoological Society, Memphis, TN, Seasonality of bamboo nutritional composition for single-source foragers.

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8:20 AMOstoja, Steven *,1, Schupp, Eugene1, 1 Utah State Universtiy, Logan, UT, USA, Total seed densities and relative proportions affect seed preferences by granivorous rodents.

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8:40 AMHernández, Lucina*,1, Laundré, John1, Martínez, Jesus2, 1 Instituto de Ecologia, A.C., Durango, Durango, Mexico2 Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Foraging in the landscape of fear: the predator′s perspective - where should I hunt.

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9:00 AMMika, Markus*,1, Belk, Mark2, Vanier, Cheryl1, White, Clayton2, 1 University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV2 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Effects of food resource quality on reproductive output, provisioning, and condition in flammulated owls.

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9:20 AMEdwards, Andrew*,1, Watkins, Nicholas1, Freeman, Mervyn1, Phillips, Richard1, 1 British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Do albatrosses really perform Lévy flights when foraging?

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9:40 AM, Break.

9:50 AMHalstead, Brian*,1, McCoy, Earl1, Stilson, Terri1, Mushinsky, Henry1, 1 University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Examination of the foraging tactics of a central place forager, Gopherus polyphemus, using correlated random walk models.

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10:10 AMSewall, Brent*,1, 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, Interspecific and intraspecific variation in foraging strategies: an empirical test using frugivorous lemurs in Madagascar.

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10:30 AMHalofsky, Joshua*,1, Ripple, William1, 1 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Relationships between elk browsing, willow release, and the landscape of fear in Yellowstone National Park.

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