To eat and not be eaten: modelling resources and safety in multi-species animal groups.
Using mixed-species bird flocks as an example, we model the payoffs for two types of species from participating in multi-species animal groups.Salliers feed on mobile prey, are good sentinels and do not affect prey capture rates of gleaners; gleaners feed on prey on substrates and can enhance the prey capture rate of salliers by flushing prey, but