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Optimality models: tools used to evaluate the costs and benefits of different organismal features, traits, and characteristics, including behavior, in the natural world.

Optimal foraging theory: a behavioral ecology model that helps predict how an animal behaves when searching for food.

Marginal value theorem: an optimality model that describes the strategy that maximizes gain per unit time in systems where resources, and thus rate of returns, decrease with time.

Central place foraging: a model for analyzing how an organism traveling from a home base to a distant foraging location can maximize foraging rates.

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