Sentence examples for capable of foraging from inspiring English sources

The young of numerous other birds, such as chickens, ducks, and shorebirds, are hatched with a heavy coat of down and are capable of foraging for themselves almost immediately (precocial).

Some reports suggest a damaged rostrum would render American paddlefish less capable of foraging efficiently to maintain good health, but laboratory experiments and field research indicate otherwise.

Australasian gannets are capable of foraging up to 550 km from the colony (Machovsky-Capuska et al., 2014).

Queens must forage in order to feed their first clutch of brood, indicating that solitary-founding females in these species are capable of foraging effectively enough to rear through their first generation of brood alone [ 26].

In short, I propose that the oldest MAB are fully capable of foraging but do not for one of two reasons: one, they are needed as nectar receivers, or two, there is insufficient forage in the field to make it cost effective for them to switch.

The developmentally most mature MAB are hypothesized to be fully capable of foraging and to only require input from the releaser (recruitment via the dance language after failure to find work as a receiver) to rapidly make the change to foraging.

ON MUNCHIES: This App Is the Tinder of Foraging.

Beef cattle are capable of utilising fibrous forage material from such marginal environments and turn it into edible animal-derived products that can contribute positively to the food-value chain system (Gerber et al. 2015).

This pattern may be explained by the foraging ecology of the red-backed fairy-wren, as this species is a generalist insectivore capable of gleaning prey from leaves, foraging on the ground, and extracting prey from spider webs among other strategies [12, D. Baldassarre, personal observation].

Our results revealed that marmosets were capable of 'preserving' their socially learned foraging variants for at least 9 months, despite having repeated access to the test apparatus and, thus, ample opportunities to execute, and modify, their behaviour.

Many mined areas in the eastern USA are capable of supporting highly productive forage crops for livestock if reclaimed and managed for that purpose (Fig. 6; Ditsch and Collins 2000).