foraging
IPA: fˈɔrɪdʒɪŋ
noun
- The act of searching for food.
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Examples of "foraging" in Sentences
- Another danger: foraging is illegal in many cities, including San Francisco.
- Such foraging is more common in Europe, where the first mushrooms of the season bring families to the forests.
- This time of year, they should be foraging from the sea ice, floating over the productive waters of the continental shelf.
- Differences in foraging behaviour between Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774) and Pipistrellus pygmaeus (Leach, 1825).
- He became interested in foraging in 1999 when he was living in Florida and came to a realization of how unsustainable the world was.
- However, when removing necessary food, water, medicinal and other supplies to stay alive because the government either cannot or will not or is unable to assist, is called foraging.
- Finally, if specialised teeth could be shown to have no important function in foraging or feeding behaviour it might then be logical to infer that preening was their primary function -- but, how on earth would you show that they had ‘no function’ in foraging or feeding behaviour?
- I gave up on traditional explanations when we couldn’t find size-related tradeoffs in foraging rates or predator avoidance under different environmental conditions said Price, who has spent more than 20 years exploring niche-partitioning explanations for the remarkable diversity of desert rodent communities.
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