Sentence examples for browsing grass from inspiring English sources

This also gives the foal the chance to start browsing grass, etc., which will further help in developing their digestive system as it gets closer to weaning time (normally at 5-6 months).

Enamel samples of A. recki from FLK Zinj suggest a mixed diet of browse and grass, whereas Kanjera A. recki was predominantly grazing.

Elephants in KNP consume varying proportions of browse to grass in different seasons [15] and it may be that the wider diversity of woody plants in the study animal's winter home range allows elephants to utilise this resource more efficiently after grass production drops off following the dry summer.

The scope of the Koch et al. (1998) paper was to compare taxa with more specialized diets of either browse or grass; therefore, by excluding potential dietary generalists such as Platygonus and/or Hemiauchenia, the effects of warming on dietary niches may be less apparent.

Therefore, it could be expected that a variable spectrum of feeding strategies, from strict browsing to grass-dominated mixed feeding, will be found among Early Miocene cervids without any hypsodonty increase would have taken place.

It prefers open woods where it feeds mainly on herbs and foliage and sometimes on woody browse and grasses.

They commonly browse when grasses are not plentiful.

Generally speaking, there is a decreased tolerance to browsing moving from grass-like plants to trees, and also decreased accessibility to the edible portions of the plant.

At the time of my visit they were more widely dispersed, but we still find good numbers browsing the tall grasses of a nearby "ecopark" and even meet one impressive tusker sauntering down the main road as we return to the lodge after dark.

This left wide areas within the nomadic system with plentiful grass, browse, and wildlife.

Cattle browsed in the grass, and the distinctive call of a sandhill crane carried on the wind that flowed down from ancient sand dunes in the distance.