Topic: homing pigeons

Foraging is a complex behavior vital for survival regularly involving memory anddecision-making to optimize costs and benefits. How long should an animal stay near a foodsource, and when should it move to a better food patch? In this poster, we investigate pigeons’foraging behavior testing predictions from the marginal value theorem (MVT) in a well-controlled environment with 3D pose tracking. We used DeepLabCut to analyze the behaviorof twelve homing pigeons in a 4sqm arena with two separate food patches. We manipulatedthe elevation of the food patches to investigate foraging strategies condi