Barta, Zoltán et Giraldeau, Luc-Alain (1998). The effect of dominance hierarchy on the use of alternative foraging tactics: a phenotype-limited producing-scrounging game. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology , vol. 42 , nº 3. pp. 217-223. DOI: 10.1007/s002650050433.
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Group living is thought to be advantageous for animals, though it also creates opportunities for exploitation. Using food discovered by others can be described as a producer-scrounger, frequency-dependent game. In the game, scroungers (parasitic individuals) do better than producers (food finders) when scroungers are rare in the group, but they do worse when scroungers are common. When the individuals' payoffs do not depend on their phenotype (i.e. a symmetric game), this strong negative frequency dependence leads to a mixed stable solution where both alternatives obtain equal payoffs. Here, we address the question of how differences in social status in a dominance hierarchy influence the individuals' decision to play producer or scrounger in small foraging groups. We model explicitly the food intake rate of each individual in a dominance-structured foraging group, then calculate the Nash equilibrium for them. Our model predicts that only strong differences in competitive ability will influence the use of producing or scrounging tactics in small foraging groups; dominants will mainly play scrounger and subordinates will mostly use producer. Since the differences in competitive ability of different-ranking individuals likely depend on the economic defendability of food, our model provides a step towards the integration of social foraging and resource defence theories.
| Type de document: | Article |
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| Mots-clés libres: | dominance hierarchy; game theory; group foraging; phenotype limitation; producer-scrounger |
| Centre: | Institut national de la recherche scientifique |
| Date de dépôt: | 02 mai 2018 17:48 |
| Dernière modification: | 02 mai 2018 17:48 |
| URI: | https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/6969 |
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