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The answer FORAGING has 6 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of foraging in various dictionaries:
noun - the act of searching for food and provisions
verb - collect or look around for (food)
verb - wander and feed
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(of a person or animal) search widely for food or provisions. |
the act of searching for food and provisions |
Present participle of forage. |
The act of searching for food. |
Food such as grass or hay for horses and cattle fodder. |
A wide search over an area in order to obtain something, especially food or provisions. |
Foraging description |
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Foraging is searching for wild food resources. It affects an animal's fitness because it plays an important role in an animal's ability to survive and reproduce. Foraging theory is a branch of behavioral ecology that studies the foraging behavior of animals in response to the environment where the animal lives. * Behavioral ecologists use economic models to understand foraging; many of these models are a type of optimality model. Thus foraging theory is discussed in terms of optimizing a payoff from a foraging decision. The payoff for many of these models is the amount of energy an animal receives per unit time, more specifically, the highest ratio of energetic gain to cost while foraging. Foraging theory predicts that the decisions that maximize energy per unit time and thus deliver the highest payoff will be selected for and persist. Key words used to describe foraging behavior include resources, the elements necessary for survival and reproduction which have a limited supply, predat |