The benefit of social behavior that refers to searching for and collecting food is referred to as

The benefit of social behavior that refers to searching for and collecting food is referred to as foraging.

Foraging is the benefit of social behavior by which an organism searches, obtains and uses food (sources of energy and nutrients). Foraging includes how resources are consumed, location of resources, along with how resources are stored by organisms in an environment. Foraging behavior produces a positive energy budget for organisms and helps their survival.

allowed for the prediction of the properties of missing elements.