Peanut Food Source And Sunflower Food Experiment

In short, the experiment successfully supported the hypothesis. There was a significant disparity between the peanut food source and the sunflower seed food source. The ANOVA test was able to provide a p-value very close to 0 which means it’s statically significant. On top of that visually the average amount of the food source left was visually different when comparing 62.8 peanut grams left compared to 99 sunflower seed grams left. This clearly shows that peanuts are the more desirable food source for squirrels in the area we tested. At the first three trials (idk about the last two) squirrel(s) where often still seen foraging in the peanut tray after the elapsed time of the trial. This shows that the squirrels didn’t reach the point where they would give up in that foraging location. Also at the first three trials the squirrels seemed “uninterested” in the tray with the sunflower seeds and weren’t even touched.
The GUD for the sunflower seeds were so low that it even seems that as long as there’s another food source that they won’t go for sunflower seeds. This seems very interesting to me considering that I wouldn’t think a certain food source would take that much precedence over another. However, per the marginal value theorem, this is understandable as the squirrels saw only limited value in sunflower seeds. They would have to spend more time on handling the sunflowers seeds to get the same nutrients from the peanuts. So, more time at a location can lead to other reasons why a squirrel wouldn’t want to forage sunflower seeds such as