Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the selection of food by rats, humans, and other
animals, and focuses on the complex problems, especially in food recognition and choice, in
the omnivores or generalists. Food selection implies food ingestion. Food ingestion implies
the presence of food. Therefore, background for the study of food selection includes the food
search process: search images and search mechanisms for finding appropriate food stimuli
in the environment. Honey bees provide fine examples of a highly developed food search …