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Behavioural Ecology

In Our Time

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Is There a Congruence of Interest?

John Krebs was head of the Food Standards Agency for 15 years. He worked with Rick Chan on a theory that animals go to feed where the food is. The pair used economics and behavioral ecology to predict what animals would do in their natural environment. They were 'completely triumphant' when they finally got it right, he says.

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