foraging

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More than two decades ago, Dudley proposed that humans' interest in alcohol has deep roots in primate evolution and stems from ancient foraging habits.

From Science Daily

All of this combined has made the southern residents’ traditional foraging patterns less fruitful.

From Seattle Times

They found multiple cases in which thriving populations of certain species, particularly large vertebrates, through acts like foraging, burrowing, and trampling, increased an ecosystem's carbon storage capacity by as much as 250 percent.

From Salon

Since she couldn’t take her baby on foraging trips, she decided to do the next best thing: turn her nursery into a mushroom-themed, cottagecore haven.

From Seattle Times

“They’re basically building these gigantic compost heaps within the forest, and then a ton of other species use those compost heaps as habitat or foraging grounds,” Cove says.

From Scientific American