Is it true that all organisms forage optimally? Why or why not?

Video transcript

Welcome back. Let's look at our next question according to the optimal foraging model. Natural selection favors foraging behavior. That blank costs and blank benefits. When we look over our answer choices, they're different um combinations of minimizes and maximizes. Let's recall what foraging is from our content video. It would be searching for food over a wide geographical area. But even if we didn't recall what that was um in general, we think that natural selection would favor foraging behavior. Well, if we're talking about costs and benefits, we would we would naturally want to minimize oops cost and maximize benefits. So fortunately this is a pretty straightforward question. So we'll just look for our answer choices and find the ones where the words are in the right order. So we want minimizes for costs. So let's look for answer choices that minimizes in the first position and that would be choice A. And Choice B. So we can eliminate choice C. And D. Since they have maximizing costs. And then we want to maximize benefits. And we see that only in choice B. So we can go ahead and eliminate choice A. Which minimizes the second position. And we know that choice B is our correct answer. And let's just think briefly about what would when we're talking about foraging, what is minimizing costs and what is maximizing benefits? Well, the costs for foraging are obviously if you're ranging over a wide geographical area, there's energy expenditure to move around to travel. And it also increases the risk of predation for prey animals. So increased risk of venturing out in a wide area And then the benefits, of course, are the increased energy gain by access to more food sources so they have to maximize their feeding efficiency. Um But balance the risk of predation and then, of course balance the energy expenditure of forging, ranging widely with the energy gained by increased access to different food sources. So again, natural selection will favor foraging behavior. That choice be minimizes costs and maximizes benefits. See you in the next video.