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Assignment: Search Strategies for Foraging Animals Article- Introduction to Animal Behavior
Responses to publishedliterature allow youto demonstrate your understanding of a reading's content and critically analyze the implications of findings and ideas presented. The readings selectedwillalso provide you with background to understand learning content given in this course.
For this assignment, you will read the assigned article and post a response to the article in the Discussion Board section on Blackboard, under the appropriately dated/labeledforumof "Article Responses." Click on the forum title, then click on "Create Thread" to start your post.
Your post will include the following elements:
I. Two key ideas: Give at least two key conclusions or most important overarching findings from the article.This description should be succinct and highlight the most relevant findings or conclusions, but they must convey complete ideas. These should be the "take-home messages" of the article. Do not simply "copy and paste" or paraphrase the findings given in the article (and this is plagiarism!). Dig deeper - think more broadly about the relevance or importance of the findings.
II. Critical analysis andquestioning for further investigation: Give a critical evaluation of the article or provide some topics/questions for future research or investigation. You will provide a short analysisregarding the article, focusing on evaluation and synthesis of the ideas in the paper. This portion should be the bulk of your post. Focus on the content of the reading, and think about overall purpose, reasoning, and conclusions of the paper. Be logical and thoughtful in your analysis. For example:
1. Are there any gaps in the knowledge or areas that may benefit from future growth?
2. Can these ideas be applied to different situations or scenarios? What are some challenges or advantages?
3. What are the conservation implications of this reading? How does it address relevant and pressing questions in conservation?
Article: Search Strategies of Foraging Animals by W. John O'Brien, Howard I. Browman and Barbara I. Evans.