Sentence examples for foraging purposes from inspiring English sources

We tested this prediction as well as the extent to which stationary birds use head up exclusively for antipredatory purposes and hopping birds use head up for foraging purposes only.

People's access to food depends both on the purchasing power of their income and on their non-market mechanisms such as rights to land for subsistence farming and foraging purposes.

It is considered that originally red-green visual system had evolved for foraging purpose and later it became to be used in socio-sexual context in some primate lineages.

Based on studies of grass ensiling for forage purposes [ 25], the effect of ensiling as pretreatment is known to be correlated to the produced organic acids that act primarily on hemicellulose.

Females spent much of their time away from the colony, probably foraging for the purpose of the egg formation, as this is the case in other seabirds (Astheimer et al. 1985; Creelman and Storey 1991).

Scottish botanist David Douglas noted the native use of fire for tobacco cultivation, to encourage deer into smaller areas for hunting purposes, and to improve foraging for honey and grasshoppers.

The role individual EFs, or subcomponents of self-regulation, play in foraging should be measured for this purpose.

Foraging for wild garlic adds culinary purpose to a Sunday stroll, but you'll also find it cheapish (£1-2 for a 100g bag) on farmers' market stalls.

It wags its tail in a horizontal fashion while foraging in this manner; the exact purpose of this behaviour is unknown but is thought to help flush out insects hidden in vegetation and hence make them easier to catch.

GPS position data is often used to construct home ranges (HRs) [3] [6] or utilization distributions (UDs) [7] [13], where the former are bounded areas used by animals for some defined purpose (e.g. foraging or seeking mates), while the latter are represented by isopleths demarcating regions in space with different probabilities or rates of usage by individuals.

The purpose of this procedure was to initiate foraging by the test fragment and to put the foragers in the motivational state to forage (Czaczkes et al. 2014), so that naïve ants would rapidly move onto the trail and through the bifurcation when an experimental trail with Y-bifurcation was provided.