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A computer‐activated food delivery system for dispensing natural prey items among complex arrays of patches
Author(s) -
Maclean A.,
Miles M. S.,
Armstrong J. D.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2003.00254.x
Subject(s) - biology , foraging , predation , food delivery , flexibility (engineering) , ecology , scope (computer science) , fishery , statistics , computer science , mathematics , marketing , business , programming language
Experimental studies of the foraging ecology of drift‐feeding fishes have been limited in scope because of the lack of systems for dispensing suitable prey items to a number of patches with complex and controlled spatio‐temporal patterns of delivery rate. Here, tests are reported of a computer‐controlled feeding system that performs this requirement with considerable flexibility.