How To Use Foraging In A Sentence
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The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion.
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With their proportionally short wings, long legs with robust femora, and large, robust feet (Bennett 2001), azhdarchids were likely to have been even better suited for terrestrial foraging than most other pterodactyloids.
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Restricted foraging time due to inclement weather and the resultant decrease in food intake is believed to influence hypothermia in manakins and may induce torpor in hummingbirds.
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Their central midfield was notable more for foraging than contributions in attack.
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The exception is a pregnant female out foraging for her nest, who will look healthy and strong, will be moving purposefully and should be left alone.
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They use a variety of foraging styles; most commonly they glean food from foliage while they climb about on tree limbs.
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Instead of spreading out and confronting their neighbors in hostile face-offs, foraging sanderlings bunched together in tight little flocks.
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When there is an influx of nectar into the nest, the colony deploys more workers for foraging.
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They are in a foraging and feeding cycle in the same ways that they know when the tide goes in and out.
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Likewise, trunks for foraging woodpeckers and vegetational structures for dead-leaf foraging antbirds are found throughout the midstory, often extending into the understory and canopy.
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Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a new-style simulating evolution algorithm. The behavior of real ant colonies foraging for food is simulated and used for solving optimization problems.
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In the face of potential starvation, honey bees finally begin foraging on alfalfa, but they learn to avoid being clubbed.
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That chosen for chipmunks is a compromise between the speeds reported for foraging chipmunks and migrating lemmings.
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Days can be spent foraging for mushrooms for dinner or boating on the lake, while the town's spa and casino from its heady days are still open.
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The children had been living on the streets, foraging for scraps and sleeping rough.
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Instead of spreading out and confronting their neighbors in hostile face-offs, foraging sanderlings bunched together in tight little flocks.
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However, rapid return to the nest would seem irrelevant for the majority of foraging time when nearly continuous flows of outgoing and returning traffic prevail.
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Our results add complexity to the genetic architecture of the foraging behavior of the honey bee.
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The natural foraging diet of wild deer ranges from heather and shrubs to herbaceous parkland.
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For example, Hallowell found the bear cult was linked strictly to hunting success among the northern Boreal foraging societies.
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The copse was loud with birds; a gang of titmice was foraging in the oak clump to the left, and I could hear what I thought was a thrasher in the near distance.
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This is so the otters' food can be hidden to encourage their natural foraging behaviour.
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In hard times, every waking moment was spent foraging for food.
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It was cosy, had a fireplace, and commanded a nice view of the Bishop of Galway's back yard, where herons used to nest and foxes would come around foraging.
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Entertainment was all firmly based around the outdoors, and often involved foraging for food.
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I now spend most nights foraging the refrigerator and the cupboards for ingredients to concoct something he would like.
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When she feels threatened, an elephant matriarch will group her family in defensive position, which prevents foraging.
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The potential for poisoning adds a certain nervous edge to the morning's foraging.
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Days can be spent foraging for mushrooms for dinner or boating on the lake, while the town's spa and casino from its heady days are still open.
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Heaping up, therefore, an abundant portion of the "provant" upon a piece of bark, which served for a dish, they invited him to confine himself thereto, instead of foraging in the general mess.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
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Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy.
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This variation cannot be met by changing foraging behavior like a period with bad weather.
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Mill Creek foraging parties may have opportunistically harvested a number of resources from these wetlands including nesting waterfowl, muskrats, and arrowhead tubers.
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Here in Linovia they were in Swedish dominions, but there was little to be purchased, for the peasantry had been brought to ruin by the foraging parties of the Russians and Poles.
A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
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A few wallabies foraging in the saltbush lolloped out of the way.
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In this study we measured the strategy-specific foraging traits of gerbils under both laboratory conditions and in the field.
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Then have fun building a shelter, making a fire, carving your own catapult and foraging for food.
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And one of my friends is very knowledgeable in foraging and has shown me how to find food for free.
The Sun
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Ground-dwelling omnivores, turkeys walk miles foraging for nuts. insect, and other edibles.
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They are examining the effect of panda foraging on bamboo.
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A local speciality is charcuterie - around 50,000 wild boar roam the island foraging for the chestnuts and acorns that give the meat its distinctive flavour.
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Such sensory modalities (in addition to spatial memory) expand the range of edible fruits and improve foraging efficiency.
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I would not go foraging for wild mushrooms, or attempt to make my own pasta.
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Instead of plotting variables as a function of time spent foraging, foraging activity variables were plotted as a function of an x-axis where numerical increments of one corresponded to individual dives over time.
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Calculations by Prof Graeme Ruxton at Glasgow University and Dr David Wilkinson at Liverpool John Moores University show that a 25-tonne brachiosaurus used 80% less energy foraging for food when its neck reached 9 metres from its torso than if had reached 6 metres.
Dinosaurs with long necks were like 1950s vacuum cleaners, say scientists
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They are often detected by their foraging taps, bark prying, and drumming.
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Mr Golightly returned his gaze to the mire where a curlew had alighted and was delicately foraging with its long curved beak.
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However, several species among the 92 species of the original data set use the airspace above the canopy for foraging.
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By confining small fish to living in suboptimal foraging habitat, predation may have important sublethal effects on populations.
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An important strategy for avoiding competition may have been a differentiation of foraging niches between sexes, as was shown for the nominate race by Hogstad.
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Chemical stimuli obtained during chemoreception can be used by animals to modify numerous essential behaviors, including foraging, predator avoidance, reproduction, orientation, and aggression.
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Cracids are arboreal birds, nesting, roosting and foraging in the trees.
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Two distinct types of pig existed at that time: a small foraging type, principally found in Scotland, and a larger, lop-eared English type which had developed into several breeds.
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The growth behavior of Zoysia japonica showed strong plasticity and foraging trait.
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This foraging profile overlapped with those of all anthophilous insect families, all bee subgenera, and all species of nectarivorous birds that were encountered.
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Popcorn is a popular food for encouraging natural foraging behavior in elephants and apes.
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Bats feature prominently among organisms that occupy the aerosphere as they extensively use this environment for foraging.
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This migratory species is especially vulnerable to flooding because of its ground foraging ecology, but little is known about patterns of habitat occupancy at wetland ecotones.
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Such foraging is more common in Europe, where the first mushrooms of the season bring families to the forests.
In Search of Nature's Treats
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Like many gulls, the Mew Gull uses a variety of foraging techniques, obtaining food while walking, wading, swimming, or flying.
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Look for a sunny, east-facing location so the bees will receive early light and warmth to stimulate foraging.
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We hypothesize that an important reason for male and female tropical bats to form long term aggregations is to profit from more efficient foraging via information transfer, postulated previously as a reason for sociality in males of narrow-winged temperate-zone species
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Fifteen behaviors involved foraging using tools, such as probing for ants with sticks and cracking nuts with stones.
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In order to compare the evolution of foraging variables between birds, the x-axis was transformed into a percentage.
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Because emerging native bees are already foraging, she's advising farmers to seed their fields with flowering cover crops like clover, buckwheat and phacelia, which provide nectar.
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Despite that inshore foraging habit, murrelets have been likened to alcids that forage off - shore due to distance they travel between nest sites and feeding areas.
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Its one-day foraging course sends you into the countryside to find food.
The Sun
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I did not slow until one of the soldiers, waving his foraging cap from the jagging bayonet of his musket, ripped me back to the moment.
Confederates
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In lizards there is a strong relationship between foraging mode and chemosensory location and identification of prey.
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We document relative abundances, habitat preferences, and foraging guilds for the members of the bird community.
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Nests in the Bunster Range are within 5 km of marine areas, and have the highest nest-visitation rates yet reported for murrelets, which is thought to be linked to proximity of foraging areas.
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It's just the tail end of the edible fungi season and Helen goes foraging with local hotelier Eric Hart looking for ceps, puffballs, winter chanterelles (known as yellowlegs), and blewits with their distinctive scent of Parma violets.
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Factors such as plant, warning, human disturbance, terrain, water source, and soil showed correlation to the habitat selection index for foraging of black stork.
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The more stable design of fast swimming cetaceans may limit these animals to locomoting and foraging in pelagic habitats.
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I now spend most nights foraging the refrigerator and the cupboards for ingredients to concoct something he would like.
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Another danger: foraging is illegal in many cities, including San Francisco.
A Walk on the Wild Side
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Their particular foraging strategy (diurnal provisioners, multiple daily food deliveries) may help explain why they and not all seabird species have the ability to adjust provisioning effort.
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This is so the otters' food can be hidden to encourage their natural foraging behaviour.
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It is the sophisticated foraging behaviour of the bees that has promoted the diversity of flower colours.
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The two ambushing pantherine felids appeared to prefer foraging in densely covered settings and the dhole in open spaces.
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Besides discussing foraging, the book is a lavishly illustrated tour of cutting-edge wild cuisines, from Mateo's roasted veal chop with morel and cacao sauce to a cuitlacoche and squash blossom quesadilla, using the corn smut that Mexican cuisine honors and Midwestern farmers abhor.
Food foragers find fun and cash amid the wild fungi
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The hotel runs foraging courses for guests to see what can be harvested on the nearby coast, hedgerows and forest floor.
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They are swift in flight, but are more commonly seen roosting or foraging on the ground.
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The hotel runs foraging courses for guests to see what can be harvested on the nearby coast, hedgerows and forest floor.
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It was a very tedious time and as rations were none too plentiful, foraging parties used to go down to the beaches with the hope of collecting any odd dainties, such as tinned chicken or tinned fruit that might be found in the vicinity of the canteens that were being rapidly dismantled.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
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While foraging, the pigs roust grubs that the pheasants eat.
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Practices of home charcuterie, hunting and foraging are widespread.
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But during studies of the foraging behavior of Weddell seals, the researchers acquired considerable data on two important fish species: the Antarctic silverfish and the Antarctic toothfish.
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Cohesive social units foraging a particular area over several generations would enhance efficiency by transmitting such information among closely related animals.
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They found that they preferred rough grassland and shrub-filled areas for foraging.
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The un-similarity of foraging habitat selection of Oriental White Stork is great between spring and autumn, spring and summer, while have small un-similarity between summer and autumn.
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We transferred the birds to the second roosting aviary and we counted the number of unconsumed maggots left on the foraging platform.
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Galapagos Penguins have been observed foraging with boobies, terns, and shearwaters.
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Our results suggest that immature birds try to increase fat stores by increasing time available for foraging at stopover sites.
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So the feeling a reader is one of foraging in a wilderness for tidbits of information.
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Chicks given implants of corticosterone beg more than controls resulting in parents foraging to bring more food.
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This results in higher competition for scarce breeding and foraging resources.
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As they soar over foraging areas, they scan the ground, searching for carrion or scavengers that might signal the presence of something dead.
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Rare uakari monkeys, marmosets and umbrella birds move through the lush canopy foraging for food.
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Believing there was no army in the field to oppose him, he grew careless and let large foraging parties plunder the region.
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The large ears of this species may be an adaptation to foraging on moths or to foraging as gleaners.
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Trials ended after 3 min of foraging or 1 min after all the birds flew back to their perches, after which the remaining seeds and husks were removed.
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Sailing and fishing trips can be organised, but the emphasis is on simple pleasures: beachcombing, foraging for berries and samphire, swimming, birdwatching and nature walks.
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Closer to the reef, divers will be attracted by the hive of activity - wrasses, damselfish, butterflyfish and cleaner fish dart about foraging for food among the hard corals.
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Exposure to predators may be one factor that limits the foraging activities of small nectarivorous birds at this site.
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Because geitonogamy requires that individual pollinators visit more than one consecutive flower on a plant, I quantified the relation between the number of flowers open on a branch and the number visited sequentially by foraging bees.
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Overall foraging niches (linear combination of diet diversity, prey size, foraging-method diversity, and water depth) of avocets and dowitchers were segregated from each other and from Least and Western sandpipers.
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Breeding pairs defend large territories for nesting and foraging.
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Farther along we saw a feral hog that was foraging within ten feet of the road - and so many armadillos we quit counting.
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So she left home at 16, lived in a tin-hut Delhi slum, foraging for beer bottles she could wash and sell on rubbish tips.
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We befriended each other when wolves were foraging around our Mesolithic camps for food, and our own ancestors quickly discovered that 'dogs' could help them track and hunt animals.
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So, he came to live in that place, and none knew how he lived or gained his sustenance, other than from his foraging the countryside for bottles and other redeemable scrap.
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My income comes from running foraging courses.
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As a child on the South Shore of Massachusetts, I would go foraging for wild blueberries and “checkerberries”–small red berries with white flesh and a minty flavor.
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Massive baggage trains enabled rapid troop movement by the Frankish army without repeated foraging.
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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.
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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.
Study: Thievery Promotes Rodent Coexistence | Impact Lab
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As a result, foraging conditions that female Mallard and pintail encounter during spring migration influence the amount of lipid stored and, thus, reproductive success.
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My income comes from running foraging courses.
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For both human and animal there are cues in the environment that help us judge whether to continue foraging in the same location or to forage elsewhere.
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My dress consisted of a scarlet flannel shirt, and a pair of _etoffe du pays_ trousers, which were fastened round my waist by a leathern bolt, from which depended a small hunting-knife; a foraging cap and deer-skin moccasins completed my costume.
Hudson Bay
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In theory, the density-dependent foraging behavior of granivorous rodents and their preference for certain seeds are capable of inducing short-term apparent competition among seed species.
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These birds didn't even scratch the ground for food, practicing normal foraging behavior.
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In their 2005 Nature paper (which was really just a tiny subset of a much longer, detailed paper they published elsewhere a couple of years later), Stokkan and colleagues used radiotelemetry to continuously monitor activity of reindeer - when they sleep and when they roam around foraging.
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Variation between snow conditions at Peary caribou and muskox feeding sites and elsewhere in foraging habitats on Banks Island in the Canadian High Arctic.
Renewable resource use and climate change in the arctic
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Whereas increased consumption may compensate for some costs of parental care, foraging also reduces time spent on parental care, leading to offspring being more vulnerable to predators while the parent forages.
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We disturbed a wild boar that had been foraging by the roadside.
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Dr. Jeffrey Short, formerly of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and colleagues wrote in their 2007 report that "such persistence can pose a contact hazard to intertidally foraging sea otters, sea ducks, and shorebirds, create a chronic source of low-level contamination, discourage subsistence in a region where use is heavy, and degrade the wilderness character of protected lands.
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Angling closer and slowing to a walk, he is shocked to see a trio of dire wolves foraging in the snow.
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Until, that is, another cottager went foraging in the archives and found an 1854 by-law referencing just such a road - a by-law Meaford and its pre-amalgamation predecessors had never registered on the title of anybody's property.
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I would not go foraging for wild mushrooms, or attempt to make my own pasta.
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Placed in the middle of a field of alfalfa, foraging bees will fly tremendous distances to find alternative sources of food.
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It is so bad that former fishermen have taken up a new trade - foraging for drifting refuse which they can sell.
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Nectar is the most common reward amongst epidendroid orchids since their pollen occurs in discrete masses within pollinia and is generally inaccessible to foraging insects.
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Although in practice this may be true, consumption of non-organic materials is probably a by-product of their foraging.
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As with enlarged leg musculature, larger tarsi may be linked to improved adeptness at locomotion for more effective foraging and predator evasion.
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Foraging trumpetfish may make 2-3 strikes per hour.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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This is currently happening on the allotment, where foraging badgers have taken a liking to crops such as sweetcorn!
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But while the more extreme freegans promote squatting and shoplifting as potential techniques, I restricted my quest to less controversial forms of urban foraging.
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I went down towards the creek and found a huge flock of robins, grackles and red-winged blackbirds foraging.
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For comparison, respirometric data were also obtained from Nyctalus noctula, a hibernating vespertilionid bat of similar body size and convergent foraging habits.
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They can arrange courses on foraging, bushcraft and other suitable rural skills.
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Nevertheless, it would be disingenuous to suggest that foraging is always straight - forward and easy.
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She said those running paid-for foraging courses were exploiting ancient woodland for commercial gain.
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I went down towards the creek and found a huge flock of robins, grackles and red-winged blackbirds foraging.
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She's part of a multicoloured herd foraging the woodlands near Bramshaw and is a reminder that the pannage season has been extended.
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A few of these ground-foraging warblers hopped across the grass, close enough to enjoy without binoculars.
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Three types of territoriality were recognized according to the defense rate and degree of fidelity to the foraging site.
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The initiation of foraging during the life course of honeybee workers is of central interest to understanding the division of labor in social insects, a central theme in sociobiology and behavioral research.
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He became interested in foraging in 1999 when he was living in Florida and came to a realization of how unsustainable the world was.
A Walk on the Wild Side
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Variation in foraging vigor of certain female spiders predicts the occurrence of sexual cannibalism.
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Neither side moved, but one day the Damascenes attacked a large foraging party and nearly annihilated it.
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While foraging for mushrooms can be gastronomic Russian roulette (are those porcini or poisonous?
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In subantarctic fur seals, the duration of the attendance period was positively related to the duration of the foraging trip, as observed in other fur seals.
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Closer to the reef, divers will be attracted by the hive of activity - wrasses, damselfish, butterflyfish and cleaner fish dart about foraging for food among the hard corals.
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These observations have implications for our understanding of the foraging capabilities of gannets, and the interactions of gannets with commercially targeted fish species.
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She said those running paid-for foraging courses were exploiting ancient woodland for commercial gain.
The Sun
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For my class project I chose to map the foraging patterns of a nesting Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher.
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Conversely, selective foraging by herbivores alters plant community composition, which indirectly decreases nitrogen cycling.
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I would not go foraging for wild mushrooms, or attempt to make my own pasta.
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It's just the tail end of the edible fungi season and Helen goes foraging with local hotelier Eric Hart looking for ceps, puffballs, winter chanterelles (known as yellowlegs), and blewits with their distinctive scent of Parma violets.
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During migration and winter, they are coastal, foraging on mudflats, salt marshes, estuaries, and coastal pools.
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First, tadpole foraging and growth rate may increase with increased size, and hence any negative effect of the predator on growth rate will be magnified at high tadpole growth rates.
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Variation in leaf quality exists at a scale relevant to the foraging choices of individual folivores.
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The copse was loud with birds; a gang of titmice was foraging in the oak clump to the left, and I could hear what I thought was a thrasher in the near distance.
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My income comes from running foraging courses.
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During the first winter of his study, based at California's Point Reyes National Seashore, Myers observed that sanderlings, when not foraging, roosted amicably in large flocks on sandbars.
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And one of my friends is very knowledgeable in foraging and has shown me how to find food for free.
The Sun
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In addition, the spatial distribution of this resource promotes different foraging strategies in these birds.
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The aardwolf is a undoubted termite specialist, lapping up exposed workers assembled along foraging trails.
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A study of the behaviour of 2,000 woodland birds looked at their feeding and foraging activity throughout a cold winter's day.
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During the sack, the countryside had taken on the marks of anarchy: farm-dogs foraging in packs, empty farmhouses, trampled gardens, neglected vineyards, unyoked oxen wandering in the road.
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Major sap wells were defined as clusters of 100 or more holes on the boles or large branches of living trees and were located by visual survey of the forest and by observing the activity of foraging sapsuckers.
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The adult cowtail stingray of Shark Bay, Western Australia, is a solitarily foraging animal that facultatively groups when resting on shallow, inshore sand flats.
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Data on the foraging activities of honeyeaters were collected for each of the eight sites during four 45-minute sessions throughout the observation day.
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In particular there are close associations between nesting density on islands or islets, foraging habits, breeding ecology, and behaviour.
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Among the birds foraging for food, there were a couple of crows.
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Nesting colonies are typically found in mature forests, on islands, or near mudflats, and do best when they are free of human disturbance and have foraging areas close by.
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Stay as happy as Norwegians by hunting elk and foraging for cowberries.
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We know of no evidence that the behavior of domestic strains of guppy differs significantly from that of the wild type, and social learning of foraging behavior has been found in both laboratory and wild populations of the guppy.
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And one of my friends is very knowledgeable in foraging and has shown me how to find food for free.
The Sun
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But during studies of the foraging behavior of Weddell seals, the researchers acquired considerable data on two important fish species: the Antarctic silverfish and the Antarctic toothfish.
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If the first-laid eggs begin to hatch days before the last-laid eggs, remaining unhatched eggs will be incubated far less frequently and efficiently, because the female will be off the nest foraging for the already-hatched young.
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Marine mammals and large flying birds are the animals most likely to be able to benefit from foraging over very large distances.
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Its one-day foraging course sends you into the countryside to find food.
The Sun
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While foraging for wild grapes one should examine the seeds of the fruit closely to make sure one is not eating moonseeds: moonseeds are crescent, in shape, while grapes have circular seeds.
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These designs typically are built in the non-sticky center of the web, where spiders wait when foraging.
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Travellers were not welcome and foraging parties of clansmen would regularly plunge south on what Sir Walter Scott called ‘predatory excursions upon their Lowland neighbours’.
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Placed in the middle of a field of alfalfa, foraging bees will fly tremendous distances to find alternative sources of food.
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All of the foraging studies were limited to two classes of vegetation, grass and forbs.
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Foraging data were collected from 32 different individual redstarts.
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Among coastal river otters in this region, sociality could be explained by the benefits obtained from cooperative foraging on high-quality schooling pelagic fishes.
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The study area featured extensive coastal woodland of predominantly casuarina, manchineel, mahogany, and coconut trees that provide the doves with roosting, nesting, and foraging sites.
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The woodpeckers peel large chunks of bark off of dead trees while foraging for insects.
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By filtering sunlight and mixing selected wavelengths in what Keats calls "appetizing combinations" for plants that are used to savagely foraging on whatever solar sustenance they can find, Keats is humorously reminding a gluttonous humanity how much it takes its flora for granted.
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Differently stated, each species may have been competitively excluding the others from its foraging microhabitat, thus allowing coexistence in the larger habitat; with the use of different foraging techniques enhancing resource sharing.
Competitive exclusion principle
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Then have fun building a shelter, making a fire, carving your own catapult and foraging for food.
The Sun
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A study of the behaviour of 2,000 woodland birds looked at their feeding and foraging activity throughout a cold winter's day.
Times, Sunday Times
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In some species such sexual dimorphism occurs year-round and might be explained by intersexual differences in foraging, dominance or habitat use.
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Days can be spent foraging for mushrooms for dinner or boating on the lake, while the town's spa and casino from its heady days are still open.
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