Foraging is a complex and cognitively demanding behavior. Although it is often regarded as a mundane task, foraging requires the continuous weighting and integration of many sources of information with varying levels of credence. Bats are extremely diverse in their ecology and behavior, and thus demonstrate a wide variety of foraging strategies. In this review, we examine the different factors influencing the decision process of bats during foraging. Technological developments of recent years will soon enable real-time tracking of environmental conditions, of the position and quality of food items, the location of conspecifics, and the bat's movement history. Monitoring these variables alongside the continuous movement of the bat will facilitate the testing of different decision-making theories such as the use of reinforcement learning in wild free ranging bats and other animals.

中文翻译：

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觅食蝙蝠的决策。

觅食是一种复杂的认知行为。尽管它通常被认为是一项平凡的任务，但觅食需要不断加权和整合具有不同信任级别的许多信息源。蝙蝠的生态和行为极为不同，因此表现出多种觅食策略。在这篇综述中，我们研究了影响觅食过程中蝙蝠决策过程的不同因素。近年来的技术发展将很快实现对环境条件，食品的位置和质量，具体品种的位置以及蝙蝠的运动历史的实时跟踪。