I skipped a week with the entries to this blog, so I'll try to fill in the blanks.
I implemented lateralization for the chicks and two alternative decision logics for the parent: when the chick drops the fish, the parent will either randomly switch the fish orientation or it will switch only after the chick misses twice. This is still not realistic, but it serves as a starting point. From here I will need to determine a more accurate potential strategy for the parent that switches fish orientation with purpose.
In talking with my advisor in the bio department, it was decided that as well as trying to answer whether parents switch fish orientation in response to chick behavior, it would be nice to determine what factors involved in feeding have the largest effect on feeding success. This can be done by sweeping through ranges of possible values for the variables in my model to determine what effects different values have.
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