You Are Studying Foraging Behaviors in a Small Seed-Eating Bird

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Essay

You are studying foraging behaviors in a small seed-eating bird species. It takes each individual bird 3 seconds to find, handle, and consume one individual seed. Assume that each food patch has 100 seeds. If it takes 30 seconds to travel between patches, how big does a flock have to be before the individual is spending more time traveling than foraging?

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