🦡 Banded Mongoose Troop: Many-Eyes Vigilance, Scan Rate and the Detection-Intake Trade-Off Lab

A troop of banded mongooses alternates head-down foraging and head-up scanning while a raptor drifts overhead. An exact two-state Markov survival formula gives the chance the troop is warned in time, checked live against Monte Carlo, and shows how group size lets each animal scan less and eat more.