Bayesian birds: a simple example of Oaten's stochastic model of optimal foraging
A. Oaten [same journal 12 (1977), no. 3, 263–285; MR0465285] has argued that stochastic models of optimal foraging may produce results qualitatively different from those of the analogous deterministic models. Oaten's model is very general and difficult to understand intuitively. In this paper a simple, tractable model is considered in which the predator searches each patch systematically (without going over the same area twice) until he exhausts the patch or decides the patch is not very good. It...