Sentence examples for forage itself from inspiring English sources

One important constraint was recognized by Demment & Van Soest (1985), namely that digestive efficiency cannot be optimized endlessly, but is limited by the quality of the forage itself.

The grass itself provides some nutritious green forage for a few months before turning brown and dropping most of its nutritional value for most of the year.

But when I am tired and my memory is out foraging for itself, the interior of the suitcase breathes a heavy sexuality.

If the expected yield of foraging were itself being optimized, then its variance should have no effect.

However, our control trials showed that females did not show any preference for either foraging task itself and their choices were also random with regards to males' foraging techniques.

Yet there is reason to think that foraging behaviour itself might influence mate choice: the first empirical evidence of females preferring males based on foraging efficiency was provided by a recent study on red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra), which showed that females preferred the more efficient of two males extracting conifer seeds at different speeds [8].

While foraging, a forager may itself become prey to another forager and it is pivotal to reduce the risk of being killed or seriously injured by predation to increase the forager's fitness.

But to build a copy of itself, a robot would have to forage for raw materials, shape them into motors, sensors, computer chips and other parts and then put the pieces together.

The wood itself she foraged for or purchased locally.

It is unclear whether foraging, in and of itself, is opportunistic or coincident with other observed behaviors.

The squid buries itself in the sand during the day to escape predators, but it comes out to forage in the water column at night (Summers 1983).