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...
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forage or purchase from foragers in order to add these foods to restaurant menus. While most foragers engage in the activity as a pastime, foraging can...
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Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock. Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the...
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Information foraging is a theory that applies the ideas from optimal foraging theory to understand how human users search for information. The theory...
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Look up forager or foraging in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A forager is one who forages, i. e., looks for forage. Forager may refer to: A hunter-gatherer...
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from the foraging behaviours of other animal groups. According to the foraging habitat, birds may be grouped into foraging guilds. Foraging includes a...
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A forage harvester – also known as a silage harvester, forager or chopper – is a farm implement that harvests forage plants to make silage. Silage is grass...
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As a rule of thumb, the foraging area around a beehive extends for two miles (3.2 km), although bees have been observed foraging twice and three times this...
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Central place foraging (CPF) theory is an evolutionary ecology model for analyzing how an organism can maximize foraging rates while traveling through...
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economically advantageous foraging pattern will be selected for in a species through natural selection. When using OFT to model foraging behavior, organisms...
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foraging paths and concluded strong support for truncated Lévy flights and Brownian walks consistently with predictions of the Lévy flight foraging hypothesis...
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Edge computing (redirect from Cyber foraging)
Edge computing is a distributed computing model that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data. More broadly, it refers to any...
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learn temporal patterns of food availability to enhance foraging efficiency. Primate foraging strategies are heavily influenced by the need to balance...
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mixed-species foraging flocks, while in parts of the American tropics packs of foraging golden-crowned warblers might play the same role. Mixed-species foraging flocks...
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Hunter-gatherer (redirect from Foragers)
or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that...
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Lenfest Ocean Program website. Marine life portal Oceans portal Foraging Optimal foraging theory The Blue Planet Kils, U (1992) The ecoSCOPE and dynIMAGE:...
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grazing livestock Forage (honey bee), bees' food supply consisting of nectar and pollen from blooming plants Foraging or Foraging theory, a topic in...
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Frequency-dependent foraging is defined as the tendency of an individual to selectively forage on a certain species or morph based on its relative frequency...
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Little penguin (section Foraging behaviour)
extensively, including to the sea floor. Foraging efficiency has been found to be significantly influenced by age. Foraging success appears to stabilise selection...
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Fodder (redirect from Forage crops)
plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves (called forage). Fodder includes hay, straw, silage, compressed and pelleted...
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Forager is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Jack Kirby, he first appeared in New Gods #9 (August 1972)...
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Aye-aye (section Diet and foraging)
finger to pull the grubs out. This foraging method is called percussive foraging, and takes up 5–41% of foraging time. The only other living mammal species...
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The Feed and Forage Act of 1861 is legislation passed by the United States Congress that allows the Military Departments to incur obligations in excess...
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Shoaling and schooling (section Foraging advantages)
swimming in groups enhances foraging success. This ability was demonstrated by Pitcher and others in their study of foraging behaviour in shoaling cyprinids...
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sometimes will only forage for the chick's benefit. Because foraging conditions and outcomes are so variable, several factors can limit foraging practices. The...
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Vespula vulgaris (section Factors affecting foraging)
due to a decrease in the queen's foraging activity after producing the first batch of larvae. As the queen's foraging decreases, the second group of workers...
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than the queen, and usually die while foraging in the jaws of predators like birds or robberflies. The foraging range and frequency of workers depends...
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Wagon (redirect from Trap door forage wagon)
wheeler) International Harvester Auto-Buggy Gravity wagon Front unload forage wagon In migration and military settings, wagons were often found in large...
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Bumblebee (section Foraging behaviour)
by their wings, which may stimulate other bees to start foraging. Another stimulant to foraging activity is the level of food reserves in the colony. Bees...
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as a forage cap. In the 18th century, forage caps were small cloth caps worn by British cavalrymen when undertaking work duties such as foraging for food...
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