Hunting Habits of Predatory Birds: Theoretical Explanation of an Empirical Formula

Authors

Adilene Alaniz, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Jiovani Hernandez, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Andres D. Munoz, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

11-1-2022

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-22-115

Abstract

Predatory birds play an important role in an ecosystem. It is therefore important to study their hunting behavior, in particular, the distribution of their waiting time. A recent empirical study showed that the waiting time is distributed according to the power law. In this paper, we use natural invariance ideas to come up with a theoretical explanation for this empirical dependence.