Whether an outgoing forager leaves the nest depends on its rate of interaction with foragers returning with seeds. This simple positive feedback links foraging activity to food availability: the more food is available, the more quickly foragers find it and return to the nest. See Prabhakar et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002670.
Image Credit: Katherine N. Dektar, Stanford University.
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