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Shrader, Adrian Fourie et al Food quantity odour data Mendeley Data These data were used to test whether odour cues alone would enable a mammalian herbivore to make patch choice decisions based on forage quantity from afar. We used semi-domesticated African elephants (Loxodonta africana) as a model system due to their reliance on olfaction and their high foraging selectivity. Elephants reliably selected the patch with more food when the difference in quantity was >600 g. Previous research suggests that 600 g corresponds to approximately 6–10 trunk loads of grass or 16–29 trunk loads of woody vegetation leaves. Our findings suggest that olfactory cues can facilitate long-distance foraging decisions in mammalian herbivores based on relatively fine-scale differences in food availability. Behavioral Ecology Foraging Behavior Food Odor Dataset doi:10.17632/kpng7nnf29.3 oai:data.mendeley.com/kpng7nnf29.3 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/kpng7nnf29 2025-10-27T01:42:18Z