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单词 forager
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forager
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɒr.ɪdʒ.ər/us
/ˈfɔːr.ɪdʒ.ɚ/
apersonoranimalthat goes fromplacetoplacesearchingfor things that they caneator use:
觅食者；觅食动物
She is a veryaccomplishedhunterand forager.她是一个非常熟练的猎人和觅食者。
Animals are veryselectiveforagers.动物是非常有选择性的觅食者。
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  • Plant foragers will beabletospotgooseberriesandcurrantsgrowinginfrontof thebuilding.
  • He is aprofessionalforager whorunshis ownwildfood-sourcingfirm.
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(Definition offoragerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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Most of the fundamental changes of which agriculture is but a symptom took place while people were still basically foragers.
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Foraging frequency was positively correlated with minimum daily temperatures and very few foragers were observed in winter.
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It is the latter which enables him to 'dispossess' foragers.
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By locating and following foragers rather than using baits, we were able to track the normal home ranges of the ants.
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This construction, while still admittedly embedded in enlightenment notions of social evolution, cuts across theforager-farmer division.
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We compared agouti movement with the locations of refuges and food trees, and the results suggest that the agoutis are central-place foragers.
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We mapped the colonies and their home ranges by marking the movements of foragers with wire flags placed in the ground.
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We frequently observed dropped fragments remaining briefly on the main trail that were then collected by other foragers and transported to the nest.
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The goal of this article is to synthesize what is known cross-culturally about within-group food transfers among foragers andforager-agriculturalists in light of current theory.
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The enthusiasm displayed by researchers from anthropology, biology, and psychology attest to the widespread general interest in altruism and the particular interest inforagerexchange.
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Both species were social foragers facing different adaptive problems.
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The narrative is clearly still grounded in theforager/farmer (nature/culture, agrios/domus) divide.
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After accepting the food items, the foragers always returned directly to their nests.
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Seeds in deeper leaf litter may be missed by foragers or have extra search costs and may therefore escape predation.
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Foraging site selection by foragers is not equivalent to the movement of marked and released termites and should not be confused as such.
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