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forage

[fawr-ij, for-] / ˈfɔr ɪdʒ, ˈfɒr- /


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Simply knowing a predator is nearby can alter where animals travel, when they are active, and how they forage, creating effects that spread throughout an ecosystem.

From Science Daily Jun. 28, 2026

The surrogate teaches the pup to groom, forage, and behave like a wild otter, Long said.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2026

A camera trap in Tasmania originally set to photograph quolls captured a possum mother and joey passing nightly to forage.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2026

It enabled our ancestors to forage for food and water during the hottest period of the day, with sweat to keep them from overheating.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 16, 2026

They live in colonies where they forage and feed, chatter and fight all day long.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Not the kind you get at a tiny restaurant with exposed brick and a chef who forages.

From Salon Apr. 7, 2026

Ms Avery says she uses the ingredients she forages as inspiration for her products at L.A.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2024

A curious sea otter pup peeks out from behind a column of kelp while it forages for crabs or snails off California’s Monterey Bay.

From National Geographic Nov. 14, 2023

Inspired by nature, Maya Holland of Cast & Clover hand forages and assembles each piece of jewelry in her Los Angeles studio.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2023

Emma didn’t mind his experiments with her flowers or his forages into her sewing box for threads to use in his experiments.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

Patterson's lawyers have also argued a prosecution theory about how the death cap mushrooms were located and foraged should not have been allowed to be put to the jury.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Savannah and her mother joked about the javelinas, the piglike animals that foraged through the family’s trash cans at night.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Three people were recently hospitalized after eating poisonous wild mushrooms foraged in California wine country amid an unprecedented outbreak of illness and deaths linked to the practice statewide, health officials in Napa County announced.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

Their diet centered on smaller marine mammals including harbor seals and harbor porpoises, and they usually traveled and foraged in groups of about five.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2025

Neel had climbed all the tall palm trees, waded in the creeks, and foraged for wild guavas in every corner of the mangrove forest.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

It also serves as a winter foraging site for Cook Inlet beluga whales, whose numbers have dropped to around 300.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

The species at one time bred along the Exmoor coastline, which continues to provide ideal foraging, including an abundance of fish, and breeding habitat for the birds.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

The nonprofit has long maintained that the land — reportedly the last undeveloped sliver of Big Bear Lake’s shoreline — represents critical foraging habitat for the eagles.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Research has found acetamiprid can poison honey bees, affecting their foraging capacity and memory, while a 2024 study suggested flupyradifurone could be lethal to some bees.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

When a foraging band was hard-pressed by a stronger rival, it could usually move on.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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