To eat, or not to eat: a phantom decoy affects information-gathering behavior by a free-ranging mammalian herbivore.

"CONFLICT OF INTEREST We confirm that this manuscript has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration by another journal. All authors have approved the manuscript and agree to its submission. We declare no conflicts of interest."

"FUNDING This work was supported by funding from the Australian Research Council ARC-DP [DP190101441]. This research was conducted with the approval of the University of Sydney Animal Ethics Committee (AEC; permit nos. 2014#717 and #2018/1416), and the New South Wales Government Office of Environment and Heritage (Scientific License permit nos. SL100443 and SL102186). Finally, thanks to the Murray Writing Up Support Grant 2021 (The University of Sydney), which was awarded to CGO to help in publishing his research."