Sentence examples for as foraging for from inspiring English sources
In the face of the current craze for glamping, with its emphasis on low-key and wholesome outdoor pursuits such as foraging for berries and toasting marshmallows over campfires, a traditional caravan park holiday can look horribly unfashionable.
The theory proposes that infant-directed song evolved as a way for parents to signal to children that their needs were being met, while still leaving time for other tasks, such as foraging for food or caring for other offspring.
We describe cognitive aspects of learning as foraging for explanations in the epistemic landscape, the structure (set by instructional design) of which guides the cognitive development through success or failure in foraging.
A family of two parents and six children are your charges: displaced by conflict, the game asks you to perform such tasks as foraging for water, irrigating crops, and generally trying to survive the appalling rigours of life as one of the 2.5 million refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan (a context that's clearly explained in a couple of sentences underneath the game window onscreen).
Look at the coverage during Katrina: white people were seen as "foraging for food"; blacks were "looting".
The replay studies have focused on ensemble activity of place cells in the hippocampus recorded in rats performing familiar tasks, requiring a high degree of stereotypic locomotor activity, such as foraging for food or running on a track.
In the swifts, whose normal metabolic rate approaches that of other birds, the lowered body temperature is an energy-conserving mechanism during what may sometimes be long periods of fasting, such as when foraging for flying insects is not possible.
Small pelagic fishes are secondary consumers, which feed on zooplankton and serve as foraging species for large, carnivorous fishes.
Almost a third of the bird species designated as Species of European Conservation Concern exploit agricultural grasslands, yet few studies have focused on their use as foraging habitats for birds.
This study highlights the value of scattered trees as foraging habitat for bats, and emphasizes that, in rural land mosaics, such small and isolated habitat components have value for the conservation of biodiversity, and require greater recognition and protection.
In this study, we investigated the value of hedgerows as foraging habitat for native bees in mosaics of small-scale agriculture and natural vegetation in two riparian landscapes in southeast Arizona, USA.
