forager

[ fawr-i-jer, for- ]

noun

a person or animal who goes out in search of food or provisions of any kind:The ants you see are the foragers, out looking for food and water, and they represent only a very small number of the total colony.
someone who collects or obtains things through hunting or searching about:We meet the protagonist struggling to make ends meet as a scrap-metal forager in a remote community.

Origin of forager

First recorded in 1350–1400, for an earlier sense; forag(e) + -er¹

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The study concluded that, together, these results support the idea that as human foragers became more sedentary, they selected wolves that were more friendly and cooperative, generation after generation.
Puppies beat out young wolves in one important skill | Monroe Hammond | July 26, 2021 | Popular-Science
By and large, the critics are loving this movie — particularly praising Cage’s performance as a prominent Portland, OR chef who goes off the grid to live as a truffle forager and then returns to the city to search for his stolen truffle pig.
Nicolas Cage Brings Home the Rave-Review Bacon in ‘Pig’ | Hillary Dixler Canavan | July 14, 2021 | Eater
As a forager, it was able to gain several more tons of meat per year than it would have as a sprinting hunter.
T. Rex Was a Slacker - Issue 102: Hidden Truths | Mark MacNamara | July 7, 2021 | Nautilus
It’s better to have a body that allows you to hunt like a casual forager.
T. Rex Was a Slacker - Issue 102: Hidden Truths | Mark MacNamara | July 7, 2021 | Nautilus
As foragers and people connected to the land, we have to see ourselves in community with those plants that sustain us.
Ramps, spring’s trendiest produce, explained | Nisha Chittal | May 14, 2021 | Vox

Roy Reehil, who runs The forager Press, an internet publishing company, worries, too.
The Foraging Wars: Extreme Eating Hits California | Debra A. Klein | January 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Cook, a forager himself, spent thousands of hours with his subjects, and the text betrays his attachment to them.
This Week’s Hot Reads: Sept. 2, 2013 | Damaris Colhoun | September 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
The forager encumbered with the weight of his plunder finally dropped it and made his escape.
Under the Stars and Bars | Walter A. Clark
Why take a capital comrade, a good cook and forager and story-teller, and make him uncomfortable by turning him into an officer?
The Long Roll | Mary Johnston
Jeff was the best kind of a forager; he knew how to buy and he knew instinctively where to find things.
Personal Recollections of the Civil War | James Madison Stone
However, I was a very good forager and managed to have enough to eat most of the time.
Personal Recollections of the Civil War | James Madison Stone
This served also as the family forager for meat, and game, both feathered and "red skins."
Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime | William Henry Atherton

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