Optimal Foraging — Sit-and-Wait Predators (Maximise Energy)

Clean reconstruction: the original Flash version's numerical integration was buggy (a non-reset accumulator). This uses the standard sit-and-wait relations, so the energy-gain curve has a well-defined optimum.

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Abundance of prey a 0.1

Prey velocity v 10

Energy content per prey (e) 250

Energy burned while waiting (ew) 0.1

Cut-off radius: start 1

Cut-off radius: end 20

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Waiting time per prey

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