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Optimal foraging theory holds that animals' foraging behaviors reflect complex trade-offs that vary by species and with dynamic ecological circumstances. One such circumstance is lunar luminosity. Alexander Love and colleagues found this to be negatively associated with foraging by white-throated round-eared bats, but Patricia C. Wright found it to be positively associated with foraging by three-striped night monkeys. This discrepancy is explicable in terms of the monkeys' greater reliance on vision, which means that higher lunar luminosity benefits them more than it benefits the bats.