forager

Example Sentences

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“A novice forager should only eat wild mushrooms after they’ve been taught to identify them by an expert in their region,” Diaz said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

The musician is a keen forager with "an interest in mushrooms", and said she knew how to identify it and not mistake it for something poisonous.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

“It’s probably a lot more ubiquitous than we understood,” says co-author Bruce Winterhalder, a behavioral ecologist at UC Davis and pioneering scholar of forager theory.

From Science Magazine • May 12, 2024

"These findings update our understanding of earliest forager economies and the pathway to agricultural economies in the Andean highlands."

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024

Unfortunately, there are few certainties regarding the lives of our forager ancestors.

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