forager

Examples of foraging

foraging

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Problems with the mark-recapture technique for estimating the size of termite foraging populations are beyond the scope of this article.
Foraging frequency was positively correlated with minimum daily temperatures and very few foragers were observed in winter.
When sampled with a kick net, the only organisms found in significant abundance at this marine foraging site were amphipods.
Foraging efficiencies of competing rodents: why do gerbils exhibit shared-preference habitat selection?
The species responding to baits represent a relatively small sample of the meliponine guild, and may be biased to include foraging generalists, rather than specialists.
Examination of baits may disrupt termite foraging for some period because the anchoring wire and planter bag must be removed for inspection.
The behavior exhibited in these experiments goes to the heart of the empirical reasonableness of foraging only models.
The entire drum was dug out of the ground, which would have destroyed any foraging tunnels (indicated with the black filled line).
Whenever foraging primates were encountered, the fruit species being consumed and the treatment of the seed (swallowed, dropped, destroyed) was recorded.
The emphasis on constraints presupposes that the basic, universal, species typical behavioral predispositions of humans are foraging only.
It has apical inflorescences, exposed in natural forest corridors, thereby facilitating discovery by the territorial and non-territorial hummingbirds that use the corridors as foraging paths.
The contribution of learning and digestive regulation are not dealt with, nor are evolutionary issues ranging from dietary requirements to foraging specializations.
Surveys of the foraging trails were done around the activity peaks of each colony.
Foraging on prey that are modified by parasites.
Among these are notions of curation/expediency and logistic/foraging settlement systems.
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