forager
forage
noun[ U or C ]
uk /ˈfɒr.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈfɔːr.ɪdʒ/
food grown for horses and farm animals: （马等家畜的）草料，饲料
winter forage冬季饲料
forage crops饲料作物
We'll have to maximize home-grown forages so we can cut back on grain.

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forage | American Dictionary

forage
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈfɔr·ɪdʒ, ˈfɑr-/
to go searching, esp. for food:
[ I ]Wild dogs roam the streets, foraging for food.

Examples of forage

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Furthermore, young colonies foraged on a smaller spatial scale with shorter distances covered and fewer leaf sources used.
Termites were lightly coated with vegetable oil to attract a wide variety of foraging ants in the leaf-litter community.
The integration of livestock into the farm operation can increase the use of forages and allow for herbicide use reduction31.
However, rhizomatous perennial forages can be very long lived13, indicating that rhizomatous perennial grains may be a reasonable solution to the problem of stand thinning.
Climatic determinants of diet and foraging behaviour in baboons.
They noted the high labour costs of utilizing crop residues and sown or harvested forages for penned animals, and the alternative uses of crop residues.
Tanniferous forages for which the palatability index exceeds 100% are more palatable to wethers than the control.
Comparative foraging success of insectivorous birds in tropical and temperate forest: ecological implications.
Trade-offs between foraging and predation risks determine habitat use in a desert baboon population.
Feeding behaviour and foraging strategies of captive phyllostomid fruit bats: an experimental study.
Consequently, we used month as a sample unit to examine morphological differences between foraged vs. un-foraged fruits.
Thus, plant species which produce large numbers of fruits appear to promote group foraging during the latter hours of the night.
Comparative foraging behavior of six stingless bee species exploiting a standardized resource.
Differences in home range size and foraging strategies may explain why understorey fruit bat species are more sensitive to fragmentation than canopy ones.
Our goal is to determine how home range, foraging behaviour, and colony demography are affected by resource availability.
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