forage
The restaurant sources directly from local farmers, foragers and fisheries.
Plant foragers will be able to spot gooseberries and currants growing in front of the building.
He is a professional forager who runs his own wild food-sourcing firm.

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Examples of forager

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Most of the fundamental changes of which agriculture is but a symptom took place while people were still basically foragers.
Foraging frequency was positively correlated with minimum daily temperatures and very few foragers were observed in winter.
It is the latter which enables him to 'dispossess' foragers.
By locating and following foragers rather than using baits, we were able to track the normal home ranges of the ants.
This construction, while still admittedly embedded in enlightenment notions of social evolution, cuts across the forager-farmer division.
We compared agouti movement with the locations of refuges and food trees, and the results suggest that the agoutis are central-place foragers.
We mapped the colonies and their home ranges by marking the movements of foragers with wire flags placed in the ground.
We frequently observed dropped fragments remaining briefly on the main trail that were then collected by other foragers and transported to the nest.
The goal of this article is to synthesize what is known cross-culturally about within-group food transfers among foragers and forager-agriculturalists in light of current theory.
The enthusiasm displayed by researchers from anthropology, biology, and psychology attest to the widespread general interest in altruism and the particular interest in forager exchange.
Both species were social foragers facing different adaptive problems.
The narrative is clearly still grounded in the forager/farmer (nature/culture, agrios/domus) divide.
After accepting the food items, the foragers always returned directly to their nests.
Seeds in deeper leaf litter may be missed by foragers or have extra search costs and may therefore escape predation.
Foraging site selection by foragers is not equivalent to the movement of marked and released termites and should not be confused as such.
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