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The phrase "are forage" is not correct in written English.
It may be intended to refer to the act of animals eating or searching for food, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "The animals are forage in the fields for their next meal."
Alternatives: "are foraging" or "are searching for food."
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Plains love grass (Eragrostis intermedia), sand love grass (E. trichodes), and weeping love grass (E. curvula) are forage species in southern North America.
(His English was given a boost by Roget's Thesaurus, and he still keeps a vocabulary list in a blue notebook that he takes with him — among the latest words are "forage" and "hue").
Indicators of this are forage plants that provide roughage but have little nutritional value.
Blueback herring are alewives, collectively known as river herring, are critically important because they are forage fish--small, schooling species that serve as food for many other important marine animals ranging from striped bass to seabirds and seals.
Scrub typhus seropositivity was associated with contact with goats, perhaps because the short dense shrubs that are forage for goats are also the habitat for Trombiculid mites.
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Others are foraging for leaves for their roofs, or honey for eating.
By day's end, more than two-thirds of the moose are foraging again.
The garnishes are foraged as well: local limes or feral oranges, coconuts dropped to the sand.
That forces rats to go somewhere else when they are foraging.
Herbs are foraged, procured or grown by her mother, Mary K. Miraglia, an avid gardener.
Morels are foraged in the wild in the spring.
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