Sentence examples for feeding extensively from inspiring English sources

The rodent population, feeding extensively on palm seeds, exploded.

Woodcock (Philohela and Scolopax) also probe, but in woodland soils and leaf litter, feeding extensively on earthworms.

But some with massive, crushing jaws and teeth, such as the ocean sunfishes, often feed extensively on such soft-bodied invertebrates as jellyfishes (medusae).

One important species, the meadow spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius), feeds extensively upon clover and alfalfa and causes severe stunting that can result in loss of up to 50 percent of a crop.

Although the species classified in this order are basically meat eaters, a substantial number of them, especially among bears and members of the raccoon family, also feed extensively on vegetation and are thus actually omnivorous.

Men who had the ants under study in the field and in the laboratory say that the fire ants feed extensively on other insects, many of them considered harmful to man's interests — fire ants have been observed picking larvae of the boll weevil off cotton — and that their mound-building activities serve a useful purpose in aerating and draining the soil.

Dorn and Wojdak [10] found decreasing numbers in young-of-the-year residential fish after crayfish had been introduced to a pond in which they fed extensively on fish spawn.

Striped hyenas feed extensively on wolf-killed carcasses in areas where the two species interact.

In Ethiopia, hyenas were reported to feed extensively on the corpses of victims of the 1960 attempted coup and the Red Terror.

The monkeys also fed extensively on natural vegetation, including leaves, herbs, grasses, and bark.

One further RCT investigated the impact on growth in infants fed extensively hydrolyzed casein formula with or without LGG supplementation [ 12].