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will forage

  • future tense
    of forage.
    forage
    noun
    food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.

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A group will forage together, with younger crabs following the older ones and even riding on their backs.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

You may need to do some research to see if pollinators will forage on your chosen plant — its new shape or color may have made it unrecognizable to them.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

This means they will forage to collect nectar that's hard to access -- but only if the sugar content of that nectar makes it worth doing so.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023

“It is only unexpected if you subscribe to the naïve dogma that animals will forage for the most energy intense food preferentially,” he says, but as a rule, that doesn’t make sense.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 15, 2017

They require green food, and are fond of lettuce, young clover, and fresh tender grass; and after a few weeks, if they have a free range on this, they will forage for themselves.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen