Cata Suárez-Tovar and I have just submitted as special issue proposal to Animal Behaviour journal on the above topic. This proposal has been accepted so we are now looking for possible participants.

The proposal background is as follows.

Foraging behavior is linked to individual fitness and survival, and is particularly affected by environmental changes as human disturbance. In this regard, we are starting to understand the adaptations that allow animals to survive in man-driven environments. This information is still disorganized in the literature and, given this, we are still unaware of the following: a) whether animals have converged/diverged in their foraging strategies; b) to what extent foraging theory applies to urbanized environments where, for example, complexity of prey diversity is reduced; c) whether simplicity of urbanized areas facilitates foraging abilities such as learning; d) how predators from different taxonomic groups have adapted to forage in urbanized environments. Our proposal of a special issue is novel and, as implied above, intends to provide an updated, state-of-the-art revision of the above topics. We aim to invite authors from diverse backgrounds in terms of country origin and gender. The idea is to gather 6-8 papers from senior and young scientists. Animal Behaviour is possibly the most important journal in the field.

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