foraging
the acquisition of food by hunting, fishing, or the gathering of plant matter.
characterized by or dependent upon the acquisition of food by such means; food-gathering: a foraging people.
Origin of foraging
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How to use foraging in a sentence
Moreover, the great irony of California’s robust almond industry is that it has, along with other agricultural pursuits, gradually crowded out natural foraging land for bees.
Bee theft is almost a perfect crime—but there’s a new sheriff in town | Andrew Zaleski | February 9, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe animals were not merely taking advantage of the other’s activities, as happens when fish follow turtles across the seafloor, snapping up critters scattered by their sediment-disturbing foraging.
Three months later, Serenity reached her foraging waters along a small island called Farquhar Atoll in the Seychelles archipelago.
How Sea Turtles Find Their Way - Issue 94: Evolving | Jason G. Goldman | December 16, 2020 | NautilusAs for the upper frequency range, “they don’t seem to be using it in a foraging context,” he says.
Ogre-faced spiders catch insects out of the air using sound instead of sight | Curtis Segarra | October 29, 2020 | Science NewsBy eavesdropping on their distant neighbors at night, the whales may gather information about foraging conditions elsewhere in their range.
We can protect whales from ship strikes by translating their songs | Kate Baggaley | October 2, 2020 | Popular-Science
Mountain sheep were everywhere, some sleeping by the road, some foraging, bells ringing from their necks as they moved.
The children escape but die foraging for food in the wilderness, and die embracing each other.
The culprit was a “highly protective” mother bear out foraging with her three cubs.
In Florida, Sprawling Humans Confront the Bears Who Lived There First | Jacqui Goddard | March 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMore foraging pressure is being placed on locations with good water quality, as in the case of watercress.
The Foraging Wars: Extreme Eating Hits California | Debra A. Klein | January 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Colombia trip includes foraging from forests outside Bogotá and eyeing orchids in Medellín (not edible).
The Foraging Wars: Extreme Eating Hits California | Debra A. Klein | January 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe foraging party were now provided with their lists, and with certain sums to pay for the things they were to get.
Digby Heathcote | W.H.G. KingstonTo escape detection while breaking the orders against foraging, the five men named had stolen from the camp at an early hour.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh PendexterThe Cossæi, like the neighbouring mountaineers, are for the most part archers, and are always out on foraging parties.
Some of these foraging parties had encounters with the enemy which would, in ordinary times, rank as respectable battles.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.He had doubtless gone into the stable on a foraging expedition.
Birds of the Rockies | Leander Sylvester Keyser
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